In my latest National Post column I accuse Justin Trudeau and his cronies of willful blindness on the threat the People’s Republic of China poses to Canadians.
“Every man desires to obtain additional wealth with as little sacrifice as possible.”
N.W. Senior in 1836 “laying down the first of the four principles of Political Economy” quoted in “What is Left of Adam Smith?” in Stephen Leacock On the Front Line of Life
“They [the framers of the American Constitution] knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.”
Barry Goldwater The Conscience of a Conservative
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the fact that the Toronto Maple Leafs are testing their employees while the state is not testing you teaches a lesson about howmarkets work and governments don’t.
In my latest National Post column I warn that the robots are coming faster than you think and CGI and AI spell big trouble.
“You recall that Timothy was warned by St. Paul that anyone who neglects to provide for his own house (meaning his own family) has disowned the faith and is ‘worse than an infidel.’”
Margaret Thatcher to the Church of Scotland, quoted in Fr. James V. Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty
“it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth.”
Margaret Thatcher to the Church of Scotland in Fr. James Vincent Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty
In my latest National Post column I quote two ponderously preposterous assurances on the pandemic a year ago to ask why no experience of their own failure ever convinces Canadian authorities to speak more humbly or think more carefully.