In my latest Epoch Times column I ask politicians, activists and citizens to think of something, anything, that governments in Canada should just stop doing, or trying to, because it’s not a legitimate state function or because they’re too overloaded just now to tackle that thing as well. If nobody can thing of even one, I don’t just know we have a problem, I know what it is.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say rearranging cabinet chairs while leaving policy untouched doesn’t even send the intended message let alone fix any real problems.
“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.
“maximum possible individual freedom under divine law.”
The description of Canada by “the late and famed Fr. Athol Murray of Notre Dame College in Saskatchewan” according to British Columbia Report June 13, 1994
“Quick, who said this? ‘(C)itizens, you are all first of all equal among yourselves, and your rights take priority over those of the state. The collectivity is not the bearer of rights: it receives the rights it exercises from the citizens.’ ‘A: Ronald Reagan. B: Donald Trump, or C: Pierre Trudeau?’ ‘Answer, C: Pierre Trudeau.’”
Mark Milke on Twitter August 11, 2022 [https://twitter.com/MilkeMark/status/1557747155456049152?t=bhSDdLbXvVXsEuzj-1hE-w&s=09] encouraging us to “See my column on Canada’s tradition of freedom. https://bit.ly/3BZAfJR”
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.
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the contrast between the crushing of the convoy protest and the surrender to the public sector union one evidence that Canada is losing its grip on the rule of law.