In my latest National Post column I remind Canadians, with respect to the Canada Summer Jobs grant requirement to endorse abortion, that whoever pays the piper calls the tune.

In my latest National Post column I argue that neither Justin Trudeau nor Andrew Scheer would help their parties, themselves or their country by veering left for partisan advantage in 2018.

"A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things."

Thomas Carlyle

In my latest National Post column I ask again how governments can be surprised again to find that incentives matter again.

"To Keynes’s famous dictum - 'in the long run we are all dead' - the historian is committed by profession flatly to reply ‘Nonsense! the long run is with us, a powerful active force every day of our lives."

Walt Rostow The Process of Economic Growth

"Complexity is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

John Gross of the New York Times, quoted by John O'Sullivan in National Review December 25, 1995 (with specific reference to inherent tendency of bad theories to be complex)

"Man sets self ablaze using chainsaw to open gas tank"

Headline in Ottawa Citizen April 20, 2006 (from my "It didn't even seem like a good idea at the time" file)