In my latest National Post column, while acknowledging the world-historic greatness of Justin Trudeau now that he has emergency powers, I ask whether our governments’ manifest incapacity to do even simple things including fixing health care derives from having long ago substituted make-believe for serious thought.
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask whether a government invoking emergency powers over protest crowdfunding has any interest in getting after literally hundreds of billions in dirty money being laundered in plain sight in Canada.
In my latest Mercatornet column I warn that the divisions over the protest convoy reflect a collapse of trust in Canadian society that will not be healed by both sides acting untrustworthy.
“The moment a thing has ceased to be a paradox it is in immediate peril of becoming a platitude. It is in peril of becoming one of those things that are accepted ‘in principle’ by all unprincipled men.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #11 (September-October 2021)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say before the Tories crown Pierre Poilievre as their next leader, it would be nice to know what ideas he would use his admittedly formidable political skills to advance: conservative, libertarian, or conventional wisdom with a stern blue mask.
Sir John A. “Macdonald slew [John Joseph Caldwell] Abbott with a single phrase: ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘a sweet smile. All from the teeth outward.’”
Pierre Berton The National Dream
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say all the people suddenly demanding that noisy protests with an ugly fringe be denounced and driven from the public square, to say nothing of blockades and actual vandalism, will be asked to take a similar approach to the next one even if they sympathize with its cause.
In my latest National Post column I say the only reason Erin O’Toole’s leadership isn’t over is that it never started.