In my latest National Post column I lament that the Speaker of the BC legislature seems to have become just one more partisan tool for control of the executive branch instead of a bulwark of legislative independence in defence of self-government.
My latest piece in MercatorNet, based on a speech to the Augustine College Summer Conference (and an earlier National Post column and upcoming Dorchester Review article) asks how a society as devoted to "choice" as our own can at the same time so relentlessly restrict choice.
"it’s more important to make a difference than to make a point."
Andrew Cohen in Ottawa Citizen October 11, 200511/10/05
In my latest National Post column I say people enjoy the comforting blanket of political make-believe yet crave truth when reality intrudes.
"Canada is free and freedom is its nationality"
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, quoted in Brian Lee Crowley Fearful Symmetry
In my latest National Post column I caution aboriginal militants against putting forward apparently insatiable demands in an insensitive, arrogant tone.
In my latest National Post column I say the horrific fire in London's Grenfell Tower happening in public housing is a powerful warning against putting too much faith in government.
“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it."
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men