On March 27 in a Christian Heritage Party webinar talk “Magna Lockdown: Canadian Liberty in a Medical Crisis” I argued that liberty isn’t a frivolous luxury or vague abstract ideal but a vital practical tool for creating and maintaining good government in crises as well as quiet times.
In my latest National Post column I say the astounding outburst of rudeness from Communist China’s diplomats has very little to do with China and a whole lot to do with Communism.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say calling for Canada to become a republic because of Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview, or for any other reason, misses the point that it already is one.
“They [the framers of the American Constitution] knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.”
Barry Goldwater The Conscience of a Conservative
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the casual and inconsistent way governments keep shutting down our lives betrays their conceited conviction that we weren’t doing anything important anyway.
“no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse”
John Locke The Second Treatise of Government
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that delivering partisan mush instead of a specific program in the Throne Speech, and treating a new session of Parliament as just more politicking, is a serious attack on how Parliament works.