In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask how people can continue to believe in the competence, wisdom and compassion of government when they have daily evidence of its inept and callous folly.
“It does not very much matter what we think of one individual lady known as Miss Marie Corelli.”
G.K. Chesterton “Why Books Become Popular” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (9-10/22) [as an editor’s note explained, this contemporary of GKC’s was the best-selling author of her day, outselling Kipling, Wells, and Conan Doyle combined... but has anyone heard of her today? I certainly hadn’t.]
“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
W.H. Auden, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 7, 2002
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada’s Environment Minister serving as an official advisor to the Chinese communists on climate shows what a “useful idiot” looks like… except I’m not sure he’s very useful.
In my latest Loonie Politics column, I offer unsolicited advice from the dark side to the new Treasury Board President on how not to incur the wrath of Trudeau, and wish her luck because she’s going to need it.
In my latest National Post column I ridicule the notion that Canada must bring in half a million immigrants a year to build homes for the half-million immigrants we bring in a year to build homes for all the immigrants.
“The commonplace axiom that the ‘devil is in the details’ is generally wrong. The more often correct axiom holds that the ‘terror is in the trends’.”
Colin S. Gray Canadians in a Dangerous World
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask politicians, activists and citizens to think of something, anything, that governments in Canada should just stop doing, or trying to, because it’s not a legitimate state function or because they’re too overloaded just now to tackle that thing as well. If nobody can thing of even one, I don’t just know we have a problem, I know what it is.