In my latest Epoch Times column I challenge would-be federal Conservative leaders Jean Charest and Patrick Brown in particular to show that they stand for something beside office, on practical and moral grounds.
Last Friday I was on theZoomer Round Table to explain how we got into this crisis and why starting World War III over Ukraine isn’t a good idea despite all the important humanitarian and strategic reasons for helping them defeat Putin’s invasion. (In the panel discussion starting 16 minutes into the video.)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say now that two federal cabinet ministers have blurted out what we all knew anyway, we need to decide whether to go back to pretending or actually built ourselves a military.
“Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.”
John Adams, quoted without further attribution in Epoch Times email newsletter 23 November 2021
“‘What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”
Benjamin Disraeli, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail September 1, 2005
In my latest National Post column I say justified sympathy for the people of Ukraine does not justify abandoning good sense when it comes to a nuclear confrontation.
In my latest Epoch Times column I write the speech I wait to hear from those who would be Conservative party leader and Canadian prime minister in these trying times.
“In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in favor of novelty and singularity of opinion. Indulge them in any other subject rather than that of religion. It is too important, and the consequences of error may be too serious. On the other hand, shake off all the fears and servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
Thomas Jefferson, in a 1787 letter to his orphan nephew Peter Carr, quoted in William Bennett The Book of Virtues