In my latest National Post column I object to politicians’ stream of petty dishonesty about anniversaries, events and rituals that numbs us to and implicates us in their constant deceit on big things as well.

In my latest National Post column I say Terry Corcoran’s old jibe about “Unionland” remains all too pertinent as organized labour tries to drag what’s left of the private sector into the public sector mess it has done much to create.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say that delivering partisan mush instead of a specific program in the Throne Speech, and treating a new session of Parliament as just more politicking, is a serious attack on how Parliament works.

“When you do policy, you have to allow for people.”

“David Rose, a research adviser at the Bank of Canada” quoted in Maclean’s October 23, 1995 (both Rose and Maclean's evidently considered it a revolutionary insight in economics).

“There is no limit to the amount of nonsense one can produce if you think too long alone.”

Jacob Viner, quoted by Bernard J. Shapiro, Principal, McGill University, to the Empire Club of Canada, Toronto, May 22, 1997, in Canadian Speeches Vol. XI, #4 (July/August 1997)

“Rome is burning, Mr. Minister. Could we at least hear a sympathetic tune on the fiddle?”

A Financial Post editorial involving a forgotten B.C. minister and a forgotten issue, quoted in British Columbia Report November 10, 1997