“If you particularly want it [a post] to be white you must be always painting it again; that is, you must be always having a revolution. Briefly, if you want the old white post you must have a new white post.”
G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy
This week on Forum Daily News with Hal Roberts, I discussed the JCCF petition against Bill C22 that I personally delivered to the Prime Minister’s Office in the admittedly remote hope that they’ll reconsider this Draconian and mistargeted bill.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore the prideful inability of people in public life to admit an error and apologize even though, weirdly, it would be better PR than their flailing efforts at spin control, as well as better statecraft and soulcraft.
In my latest National Post column I urge media, observers and citizen-voters to devote less attention to partisan ephemera and more to deep structural problems that will bring self-government crashing down if not addressed and fairly soon.
“the Yiddish proverb that all cats like fish, but few are prepared to get wet.”
Deirdre McMurdy in Maclean’s March 10, 1997
Today on behalf of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms I delivered a petition to the Prime Minister’s office urging him not to proceed with this aggressive infringement on our digital privacy. Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/1194808661
[This family profiled in a bleating story] “are fond of placing interesting quotes on the wall, and there is one they could really use that my teenage daughter’s competitive ringette team follows: ‘Don’t wish it was easier, make yourself better.’”
Letter from David McGruer in Ottawa Citizen Feb. 4, 2007 [the family in question had all sorts of sob stories about how the difficulties in making ends meet but in the letter writer’s opinion were not making some obvious efforts that would help]
On Forum Daily News with Hal Roberts I talk about how not to react to Alberta’s separatist movement.