In my latest National Post column I say one of the most glaring flaws in the 1982 Constitution, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, was the failure even to attempt to put checks and balances on the judiciary.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Charter of Rights and Freedoms doesn’t protect freedom, it protects our right to impose on other people, because it was designed by utilitarians to override natural law and it does.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say our political classes are reacting to inflation like a bird to a snake, paralyzed by approaching danger.
On April 14 I had the pleasure of moderating a True Strong & Free Network discussion on the Charter at 40 featuring Suzanne Anton QC, former attorney general of British Columbia and former crown prosecutor, Bruce Pardy, executive director of Rights Probe and a professor of law at Queen's University, and the last living drafter and signatory of the 1982 Constitution, Brian Peckford PC
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the feds allocating $15 billion in their latest budget to tell entrepreneurs how to be smart and original reveals a deep-seated and fatuous confidence in government.
“He did not lack just the last six inches of steel: he lacked the first.”
The Economist August 24, 1991 (alas, my notes here are incomplete; it was to do with British politician Robert Boothby, but I cannot tell whether it was said by or of him).
“The NDP Boxing Day sale ends in just a few hours. But you must act now. Donate to Canada’s New Democrats before midnight tonight – and get up to 75% back on your 2011 taxes.”
Email from the federal NDP December 31, 2011. (The point being that even they know incentives matter... except when designing policy proposals.)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Ontario NDP proposal to bring all mental health care into our crumbling public system reflects a broad, nonpartisan, goofy belief that government is the main and best creator of wealth in a society.