In my latest Epoch Times column I say if Communist China is acting nicer because its drive for world domination is faltering, we should not relax our vigilance or forget our principles.
“Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington] [An old friend’s maxim that a wise man pees when he can etc. may or may not be derived from it.]
“Indeed, one of the real lessons of history, is that nobody ever learns them. In every age and era, too many people believe that the experiences of others can’t apply to them. Their age and place is unique and therefore exempt from experience. Two other lessons of history are these: Nothing lasts forever, and very few people notice or care that their society is in trouble until it is too late.”
John Thompson in Mackenzie Newsletter April 1998 #32
“as with every prognosticator who claimed that ‘this time is different,’ she [Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland] (and the rest of the country) has learned the hard way that the laws of economics are not only immutable, they are cyclical.”
John Ivison in National Post January 24, 2023.
In my latest Epoch Times column I bid the “special” rapporteur an unfold farewell and say “told you so” on the need for a proper inquiry, with subpoena powers, to examine Chinese communist election meddling in Canada and possible complicity by politicians. And volunteer to head it if everyone else they consider is as compromised as David Johnston.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ridicule Melanie Joly’s grasp of the world situation, of its history, and of the challenges of restructuring bureaucracies.
In my latest Epoch Times column I express the agony involved in listening to our politicians babble inane falsehoods about Canadian security policy.
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the arguments put forward against a registry for foreign agents in Canada more proof that we need one.