In my latest Loonie Politics column I say whatever valid grounds might exist for criticizing Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, a soft spot for bigots isn’t one of them and it’s absurd for the press to say otherwise.
NB this interview was done before the government said it would pay Admiral Norman’s legal bills. But I stand by my claim that the ordeal he went through, including having to fund the case himself while it was in progress and with no reasonable expectation that his bills would be covered, constitutes a powerful deterrent to anyone rocking the boat or, in this case, the supply ship..
“When experience is not retained… infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana, quoted in Leonard Read Let Freedom Reign [I know you all know the 2nd part, but the 1st is also important]
In my latest National Post column I say the real crisis in Canadian public health care is that we aren’t willing to consider that it’s working badly because we’re doing it wrong.
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quoted on www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dietrich_bonhoeffer_164002
In BOE Report I say Alberta premier Jason Kenney should not have put a prominent advocate of carbon taxes in a key job. To a large extent personnel is policy so this is a worrying appointment.
In my latest National Post column I object to the hypocrisy of press releases in which staff falsely claim their politician boss is deeply engaged with some day of this or festival of that whose details they had to Google after an automated reminder to pander over it popped up..
“Mr Wirt: What do you think is going to happen in the next few years of history, Mr Lewis?”
“Lewis: I have no way of knowing. My primary field is the past. I travel with my back to the engine, and that makes it difficult when you try to steer.”
C.S. Lewis “Cross-Examination” in The Grand Miracle