On June 22 I was on Global News Radio 640 to discuss China’s push to investigate Canada for human rights violations, and the Prime Minister’s surprising but largely commendable pushback.
In 1890 Swedish economist Knut Wicksell “argued that if governments ran deficits then citizens were not being clear information about the costs and benefits of programmes which they were being asked to support as voters… If much of the cost could be transferred to a subsequent generation, citizens would select more government expenditure than if they had to carry the true costs of the benefits they received. This commitment to a balanced budget was not as naïve or rigid as some modern commentators like to suggest.”
Roger Douglas Unfinished Business
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if we cancel Canada Day, and Canada, because we can’t see that an open society that admits mistakes beats the alternatives hollow, we’ll learn it the hard way.
On June 16 I was on Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz to discuss various current public affairs follies.
In my latest National Post column I mock the notion of a geopolitical lightweight like our Prime Minister putting himself forward as an elder statesman.
On Tuesday I joined Alex Pierson to discuss the ugly mix of ideological and partisan dysfunction behind MP Jenica Atwin’s decision to leave the Green Party for the welcoming Liberals over extreme anti-Israel views she then suddenly claimed she’d never held.
“The Declaration of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God’s command or the customs of history, should be the source of Law.”
Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism
On the Crown & Crozier podcast I discuss Magna Carta, church, state and you.