No, really. Governments across Canada face appalling challenges including the growing threat of Western alienation. But most politicians are far too cautious, focus-grouped and partisan to put forward bold new ideas. If we want frank talk and big ideas that challenge the status quo and open the way for reforms that work, we’re going to have to do it ourselves.

So we’re holding the 6th annual Freedom School conference in Calgary on Feb. 8 and 9 to discuss “Things that Matter: An Agenda for Alberta”. We’ve got a terrific lineup of speakers to talk taxes and pipelines, pensions and schools, equalization and efficiency, and open the way for politicians to escape the rut of stale rhetoric, complacent overspending, bad public services and a weak economy.

Remember Ralph Klein’s supposed wisdom about finding a big parade and getting in front of it. Well, join us in Calgary and let’s get the parade going.

“A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.”

Gotthold Lessing (1729-81), quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail August 22, 2000

In my latest National Post column I offer the State of the Union address I think should be given in 2019… even if it makes people cry.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if Theresa May’s record 432-202 thumping over Brexit, the most important political issue not just of her Prime Ministership but of this generation in Britain, is not a loss of confidence forcing her resignation, then the British Constitution as we have known it for at least 250 years no longer exists.

In my latest National Post column I say ridiculous warning labels that are all noise and no signal only alert us to a society that is neurotic and litigious.

“It is because the free market serves evil as well as good that many people think they can rid society of evil by slaying this faithful, amoral servant.”

Read, Leonard E., Let Freedom Reign