In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore the absence of defence and security issues from the vacuous federal leaders’ debates, and suggest when it comes to detailed discussion that they should have talked about strengthening the Reserves.

“After the gleam of exaggerated hopes, what Kipling called the Gods of the Copybook Headings have come back to croak out their ancient saws, whose only merit is that they happen to be true.”

The Economist December 22, 1990

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the familiar tone of the weird rhetoric from the Communist Chinese government should alert us to other familiar obnoxious features of that regime.