Source: National Post (Opinions)
The great Canadian scandal of 2024 is part of the great scandal of history, which we celebrate at Christmas. Read More
Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel unleashed a whirlwind that, 15 months on, has yet to subside. Israel is strong. Her encircling enemies are defeated, crippled or vulnerable. The Middle East is in flux. But the Abraham Accords on normalizing relations with Israel, which Hamas and Iran’s other proxies had hoped to sabotage with their terror attack and beyond, have not yielded to the chaos. On the contrary, the likelihood is that they will expand under Donald Trump’s renewed patronage. Read More
In late November, the Alberta legislature passed its newly improved Bill of Rights. The bill is a signature plank of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative government. New provisions purport to guarantee rights to hold property, own firearms and prohibit vaccine mandates. Unfortunately, the bill may not do any of those things. In the end, it’s not likely to amount to a hill of beans. Read More
Re: The Liberal Implosion, Joe Oliver, Dec. 18
While Joe Oliver is absolutely correct when he says we’re witnessing the implosion of the Trudeau Liberals, it’s also true that we’ve been watching their demise in real time for years. Where most people would jettison the flotsam, Liberals remain firmly entrenched in supporting their captain as long as he remains at the helm. Read More
It’s been a particularly eventful week for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. After the surprise departure of cabinet ministers Chrystia Freeland and Sean Fraser on Monday, Trudeau has been faced with the loudest-ever chorus of voices calling on him to resign, including from more than one third of his Liberal Party caucus. Read More
Once again, a Canadian federal government has floundered to the end of its acceptable term. If Justin Trudeau manages to hang onto the leadership of the Liberal party, he will try to be the first Canadian prime minister to win four consecutive terms since Wilfrid Laurier in 1906. The two men are scarcely comparable; through his handling of the Manitoba Schools controversy and in other ways, as the first French Canadian prime minister Laurier became the personification of national unity. Justin Trudeau has twiddled his thumbs while Quebec has attempted to suppress the English language. Laurier had become the leading statesman in the British Empire while Justin Trudeau has declared Canada a genocidal power, in the same category as Nazi Germany, the Ottoman Turks massacring Armenians and Bulgarians, Pol Pot killing a quarter of the population of Cambodia, and the Rwandans who murdered over a third of their countrymen. Read More
In my role as president of Ontario’s Treasury Board, I am often reminded of a line my father liked to repeat: “Leadership is the capacity to look around the corner of history, just a little bit.” What lies around that corner today is the most significant technological revolution of our time: artificial intelligence, or AI. Read More
“Tory with a tax increase.” That was prolific Toronto X user Joshua Hind’s withering verdict on Olivia Chow’s record thus far as mayor of Toronto, in comparison to her predecessor, John Tory, and I can’t put it any better. Read More
Your great and good National Post published an important story on assisted suicide on Thursday, chronicling a startling change in policy by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. The left-libertarian BCCLA was the most important institutional force behind the litigation efforts that led to euthanasia legalization in Canada (under the rancid euphemistic cover of “medical assistance in dying,” or “MAiD”). Up until recently, every member and contributor of that group would have unquestionably cited legal suicide as its single most impressive accomplishment, its firmest and proudest stamp on Canadian history. Now … not so much. Read More
