Here is the talk I gave to Canadians for Language Fairness in Russell yesterday, on why we need to reopen our Constitution. Thanks to VideoManOttawa for recording and posting the videos. You can find my C2C Journal article on the same topic here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeduj_TUSY
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This Friday I'll be in Calgary at the Essentials of Freedom conference organized by my friend Danny Hozack. If you're in the area please join Danny, me, Brian Lilley, Mark Milke and others to talk about what's going wrong and how to get it right again. Including (but you saw this coming) a discussion of Magna Carta and our upcoming documentary funded through Kickstarter.
John Ivison in the National Post laments how Parliament is ceasing to control executive branch spending as a departure from the principle of individual freedom from arbitrary government.
The National Post just published my article on how legislators aren't keeping the executive in line (or judges) and we aren't making them do it. Politics isn't a fun sport with orange, blue and red competing for supremacy. It's about protecting our life, liberty and property. We need to remember that, and make the people we elect act on it.
How can our politicians be stumped by simple questions like “Should we be fighting in Iraq?” or even “Are we fighting in Iraq?” Click here to read the rest.
Justin Trudeau is in an awkward spot for suspending two MPs accused of sexual misconduct. But before criticizing his reaction to the NDP’s claims, tell me what he was meant to do. Click here to read the rest.
It seems odd to be arguing whether Nathan Cirillo’s murder and the assault on Parliament was terrorism without any effort to discuss what terrorism is. Terrorism isn’t just a word for extreme badness. It’s a particular kind of evil, with particular methods and goals. Click here to read the rest.
It is a credit to our system that Parliament debated our Iraq mission. Unfortunately they had a partisan squabble over whether Canada is doing too much when we needed a statesmanlike discussion of whether we are doing too little. Click here to read the rest.