“The [French] Revolution appealed to the idea of an abstract and eternal justice, beyond all local custom or convenience. If there are commands of God, then there must be rights of man. Here Burke made his brilliant diversion… the modern argument of scientific relativity; in short, the argument of evolution. He suggested that humanity was everywhere molded by or fitted to its environment and institutions; in fact, that each people practically got, not only the tyrant it deserved, but the tyrant it ought to have. ‘I know nothing of the rights of men,’ he said, ‘but I know something of the rights of Englishmen.’ There you have the essential atheist.”

G.K. Chesterton What’s Wrong with the World

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Trudeau administration’s attack on the rights of Parliament is no less dangerous for being the result of arrogant ignorance not clever conspiracy.

On June 23 I was on Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz to discuss more unmarked graves near a residential school, Ontario slowly winding down COVID restrictions and the Trudeau administration seeking to quash Parliamentary privileges over COVID and Chinese espionage.

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 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.

“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.

In my latest National Post column I say “This government doesn’t do hard” could become our new national motto as a vast cast of characters across the executive, legislative and judicial branches avoids thinking about difficult choices from COVID to national security and the budget.