In my latest Epoch Times column I say rearranging cabinet chairs while leaving policy untouched doesn’t even send the intended message let alone fix any real problems.
“There is a straight road which runs from Runnymede to Philadelphia. We did not ‘borrow’ provisions from the British Constitution, which had come from the people; those provisions were ours, paid for with the lives of our ancestors on many a battlefield. I have examined the matter. I tell you our Constitution came up from the body of a self-governing people. But we can lose our capacity to govern by its nonexercise.”
Congressman Hatton Sumners of Texas in 1937, quoted in Daniel Hannan, Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
In my latest Epoch Times column I ponder uneasily what George Washington, or indeed Sir John A. Macdonald or the Duke of Wellington, would make of modern politics.
“maximum possible individual freedom under divine law.”
The description of Canada by “the late and famed Fr. Athol Murray of Notre Dame College in Saskatchewan” according to British Columbia Report June 13, 1994
In my latest Epoch Times column I say we should get back to the values that made Canada great starting by celebrating them with gratitude on July 1.
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.
In my latest National Post column I say the “inclusive” teacher who told a Muslim kid to celebrate pride or get of Canada exposes not just reflexive intolerance but a deep, unresolvable contradiction in multiculturalism.
In my latest Epoch Times column I bid the “special” rapporteur an unfold farewell and say “told you so” on the need for a proper inquiry, with subpoena powers, to examine Chinese communist election meddling in Canada and possible complicity by politicians. And volunteer to head it if everyone else they consider is as compromised as David Johnston.