“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”

Josh Billings quoted at www.brainyquote.com/quotes/josh_billings_141132

In my latest LooniePolitics column I say budgets have become so routinely vote-buying exercises that people cheer or boo depending if they get a good price for theirs not because they think it’s a good or bad idea to loot the Treasury for private gain.

“Study history, study history – in history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”

Winston Churchill to the author, then an 18-year-old exchange student (in the receiving line at the May 1953 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association), quoted in James C. Humes Nixon’s Ten Commandments of Statecraft

In the latest issue of The Landowner magazine I say the SNC-Lavalin scandal reminds us that if government is not fundamentally a moral enterprise, it will be fundamentally an immoral one.