In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore the modern habit of judging budgets by how much boodle we personally pocketed rather than how well or poorly it safeguarded the national finances, as if our own narrow self-interest were self-evidently the national interest.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I describe Mark Carney’s chronic jetting about blabbing to his fellow Davos Man sophisticates instead of sitting at his desk making hard choices as proof that he really believes words are deeds, especially fancy abstract ones. And as brazenly hypocritical on the dreaded “carbon pollution”.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say for the Carney administration to resort to transparent budget trickery instead of reining in overspending is a disastrously self-defeating strategy even in PR terms.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I argue that most politicians and voters across the spectrum seem dangerously complacent in practice even on topics where their rhetoric is shrill and panicky.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I follow up on my argument in the Epoch Times about the Liberals promising lavish austerity because they think all spending is investment by examining a flood of press releases boasting of things any rational exercise in fiscal restraint would at least have postponed if not cancelled.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the reason Mark Carney can’t pull us back from the left-wing idiocies of Justin Trudeau is that he holds substantially the same views and doesn’t even know it.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore the Canadian habit of windy high-minded speeches and empty measures in a dangerous world.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock policymakers and pundits who say the laws of economics have changed because they haven’t but these trendy faddists thought they had.