My latest National Post column takes aim at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for buying into a false historical account that undermines its otherwise commendable effort to get from truth to reconciliation. My criticisms of unrealism in aboriginal policy have opened me to predictable accusations of bigotry. But the reverse is true. Nowhere is frank talk more desperately needed because nowhere in Canada is policy a worse mess and it is aboriginals who suffer most even from well-meaning nonsense.
In my latest Policy Options post I ask why Rick Perry is running for President again. Then I realize I don't want to know.
The 800th anniversary of Magna Carta is just 12 days away now. June 15 2015 is Magna Carta Day. Well, not in Ontario. A private members’ bill from Julia Monro (MPP York Simcoe) to make June 15 officially Magna Carta Day in this province is bottled up in committee and will likely languish if not die there since the legislature will rise on June 4 and won’t sit again until Sept. 14. They must be tired or something. Technically committees can meet in between so the bill could get reported out. But Third Reading must wait until fall if it ever happens.
Now I realize that private members’ bills rarely pass and it’s generally a lengthy process for those that do. Arguably it could go faster as a rule. But certainly when you’re looking at the 800th anniversary of what is widely agreed to be one of the most important events in our entire history, MPPs across party lines could have moved this particular bill along faster given that it was first introduced on July 24 of last year. Assuming they intend to move it at all.
On the plus side, we can celebrate Magna Carta even without the politicians.
Earlier today I was on the Andrew Lawton show on AM 980 to talk about my latest National Post column. Listen below. Starts at the 1:02:00 (approx) mark. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/9384272" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]
In my latest National Post column, I tell the government waiter I didn't order this patronizing rubbish.
There’s plenty of dissatisfaction with “government” these days. But unless we understand what government actually is we are unlikely to find workable solutions to the problems it presents. Episode 5 of Reality University Podcast is up. Go listen!
My latest National Post column criticizes the obsession with solving mankind's problems, in this case poverty, with advanced mathematics, as though humans were things not people.
My latest IRPP post notes the continuing slide of Barack Obama into self-inflicted irrelevance.