“There is a straight road which runs from Runnymede to Philadelphia. We did not ‘borrow’ provisions from the British Constitution, which had come from the people; those provisions were ours, paid for with the lives of our ancestors on many a battlefield. I have examined the matter. I tell you our Constitution came up from the body of a self-governing people. But we can lose our capacity to govern by its nonexercise.”

Congressman Hatton Sumners of Texas in 1937, quoted in Daniel Hannan, Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World

In my latest Epoch Times column I ponder uneasily what George Washington, or indeed Sir John A. Macdonald or the Duke of Wellington, would make of modern politics.

In my latest National Post column I say the “inclusive” teacher who told a Muslim kid to celebrate pride or get of Canada exposes not just reflexive intolerance but a deep, unresolvable contradiction in multiculturalism.

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.

“If it were not for lawyers, we wouldn’t need them.”

– A.K. Giffin in The New Official Rules, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 18, 2007

In my latest Epoch Times column I say special rapporteur David Johnston’s report on the Liberal response to communist Chinese election meddling is what Justin Trudeau hoped for, but not what he or any of us needed.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say Bill Blair’s smug stonewalling over the latest allegations of long delays in approving a warrant show that the federal Liberals are still flailing as this breaking scandal moves faster than they can Observe, Orient, Decide and Act.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say at their national convention the federal Liberals should have tried to sell themselves to the nation as older and wiser not conceited and reckless.