In my latest Epoch Times column I explain what is, and what is not, a “confidence” motion in a functioning Parliamentary system.
“It is one of the deep jokes of existence that very wise people and very ignorant people frequently say the same thing; perhaps it is the basis of democracy.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News Feb. 23, 1907, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)
In my latest Epoch Times column I started by asking why the new British cabinet was so small and ended up explaining why it was so large.
In a wide-ranging discussion with David Leis of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we talked about the Middle East, the rot in Canadian academia, the collapse of governance, the revolt of the elites against Western civilization and more besides… including how to fix things.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I can no longer avoid asking a question that once seemed crazy: Is the Prime Minister of Canada actively assisting powers hostile to this country, from ideological or personal motives?
In a talk to the Augustine College Summer Seminar I argued that the American Revolution brought liberty and prosperity because it looked back to the solid foundations of Magna Carta, Christianity and the Western tradition, while the French Revolution brought misery and death because it looked forward to a utopian future unconstrained by the past.
In my latest Epoch Times column, I say Justin Trudeau is half-right that his job is not to be popular.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I complain that voters throughout Canada and the Western world are not just letting politicians give up on fiscal prudence, they’re indifferent to our plunge toward insolvency.