In my latest National Post column I say the federal Liberals have literally no idea what they're getting themselves into when they promise to assess every policy initiative in the budget according to its impact on everything to do with gender including all their other policies.
"I remember that when I was a boy my teacher asked if anybody knew what laissez faire meant. I didn’t realize it was a French phrase. I thought it meant the government was 'lazy' and 'fair.' And it certainly worked well for Hong Kong under British rule."
Martin Lee in CATO Policy Report Vol. XXI, #6 (Nov./Dec. 1999)
"Le monde récompense plus souvent les apparences du mérite que le mérite même."
Réflexions morales #166 in François de La Rochefoucauld Maximes
"For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtues, it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. They will adopt the easier task of making our successful men good."
G.K. Chesterton, “The Book of Job,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton
In my latest Looniepolitics column I commend the Ontario Tories for having a good leadership race, while asking whether they also have conservative policies.
"no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse"
John Locke The Second Treatise of Government