In my latest Epoch Times column I puncture the surprisingly widespread notion that the 2019 Canadian federal election is, like all the others, the single most important and pivotal turning point in our lifetimes in deciding who we want to be as a nation going forward or backward united for the sake of the children into light or darkness as we … zzzzzzzz...
“Nobody had nothin’ and we all shared it.”
A “poignant comment of a tough old settler” unearthed by one of his students in some old book, quoted by my old high school English and History teacher Stewart H. Bull in his unpublished biography Happy Warrior: Adventures in the Classroom
“It is better to play for nothing than to work for nothing.”
Adam Smith, quoted in Jan de Vries The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
NB this interview was done before the government said it would pay Admiral Norman’s legal bills. But I stand by my claim that the ordeal he went through, including having to fund the case himself while it was in progress and with no reasonable expectation that his bills would be covered, constitutes a powerful deterrent to anyone rocking the boat or, in this case, the supply ship..