As a graduate student I was fortunate to have been invited by my professors to join them as author or co-author in their publications. During my PhD I published articles in works by Professors Michael Whittington, Glen Williams, Alan Maslove, Jon Pammett, Brian Tomlin and Michael Prince. These were tremendously powerful learning opportunities working alongside experienced authors. My PhD dissertation was integrated into a co-authored book with my supervisor Professor G. Bruce Doern. The Politics of Energy: The Development and Implementation of the NEP was published in 1984 while I was a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellow at the International Energy Agency in Paris. The Politics of Energy was quickly acknowledged as the definitive academic analysis of the National Energy Program. Interestingly, The Politics of Energy will be re-issued by Routledge in the U.K. in 2019 as part of a new energy series they are launching … thirty-five years after we wrote it.