This Saturday at 7 pm I'll be speaking on "Restoring the Alberta Advantage" at the Kitscoty Community Hall in Kitscoty, Alberta. If you're in the area and can make it we'd love to see you there.

In my latest National Post column I ask what a government is even for if legal permission for  the Kinder Morgan pipeline project doesn't mean it's possible to build it.

"As one writer put it in the Wall St. Journal, when cowards ascend to positions of leadership, their character is revealed. They panic in a crisis. They don’t know what to do."

R. Cort Kirkwood in Ottawa Sun Dec. 20, 1998

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
 

"A fish stinks first from the head."

Adage about leadership, widely quoted and attributed.