In my latest National Post column I say we won't get helpful answers on the Toronto mass shooting unless we ask the right questions.

"'Do you believe in God, Winston?' ‘No.’ ‘Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?’ ‘I don’t know. The spirit of Man.’ ‘And do you consider yourself a man?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors.'"

O'Brien and Winston Smith in George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the fact that Trudeau already had to shuffle his cabinet with an eye to the 2019 election reminds us how politicians, obsessed with partisan victory not politics, squander the time they have to make a difference in government.