In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s recent insouciant refusal even to attempt to give serious answers to Pierre Poilievre’s questions about mounting national debt.
In my latest National Post column I say Justin Trudeau’s reflexive effort to bypass parliamentary self-government in a crisis was dangerous as well as foolish.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say a crisis is no time to suspend our habit of questioning authority including in the political arena.
In my latest National Post column I say it’s ridiculous for politicians and commentators to claim the police are not answerable to the people via the politicians we elect.
In my other speech to the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June, and again I apologize for the delay in getting it edited and posted, I talked about what classical Greece and Rome got right about political freedom and what they did not, how medieval England completed the picture with Magna Carta to limit government in theory and parliament to limit it in practice, and how and why things went wrong in the modern world.