"The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Robert Moore-Jumonville in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 15 #1 (September 2011)
"The best way to celebrate a lost cause is to win it. Beyond our symbols that need to be restored, we must restore the nobility in our men and women."
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen July 1, 2006, with specific reference to Dominion Day
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra's Nose
"The sorcerer’s apprentice gets into trouble because he knows a little magic. If he knew none, he’d have no problem; nor would he have a problem if he knew enough."
George Jonas in Ottawa Citizen Jan. 3, 2005
Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy - USA, aka EFN-USA, have also posted a positive review and helpful links to The Environment: A True Story. I really appreciate everyone who's helping make people aware of the documentary because the topic is so important and the time is ripe for a challenge to the conventional wisdom.
Thanks to the American Institute for Economic Research for a very favourable review of The Environment: A True Story. It's extremely gratifying to see that the word seems to be getting out, including now over 3700 YouTube views.
"I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid."
Terry Bradshaw, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Jan.-Feb. 2002
If you're in the Ottawa area on Oct. 30 please consider joining MP David Anderson (Cypress Hills-Grasslands, and Shadow Cabinet Secretary for International Human Rights and Religious Freedom), Janet Epp Buckingham (Director of Trinity Western University's Laurentian Leadership Centre), Jay Cameron (Litigation Manager for the Justice Centre for Canadian Freedoms) and myself to discuss "Canadian Freedoms: Growing Threats?" at the Parliamentary Forum on Canadian Freedoms.
It's in Room 430, Wellington Building (197 Sparks St.) from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday Oct. 30 and it is open to the public. But you need to RSVP to David Anderson's Legislative Assistant Tristan McLaughlin (613-995-1616 or david.anderson.a1@parl.gc.ca) and you will need photo ID for admission to the Parliamentary premises.
I'll be talking about Magna Carta, how Parliament evolved to protect the freedoms guaranteed in the Great Charter, and how the weakening of Parliament in recent decades threatens our liberties.