Stephen Lewis once said, “I don’t understand how a person can be a Christian and not be a socialist?” I remember thinking, “I don’t understand how a person can be a socialist and claim to be a Christian?” My understanding…
Socialism
Fixing the marriage
Jason Kenney and Preston Manning both want to take the possibility of separation from the rest of Canada off the Alberta conversation table.
Governmental Arrogance
Alberta passed the Alberta Land Stewardship Act. With this law, according to the announcements, the Alberta government, could manage all the land of Alberta, all the water in Alberta, and even the air over Alberta.
The best government
There is a political class in Canada known as the Laurentians.
Centred in the Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto triangle, they believe that we should defer to our betters. And our betters are the politicians and civil servants who spend our hard-earned tax dollars.
Ottawa Jargon
At a conference in Ottawa recently I observed that the people who make up our National Government, politicians and public servants, have developed a new revealing jargon. Issues are called Files, meetings are called Tables. Ideas and conversations are not…
Alberta is at Risk
The Alberta government should immediately study a full program of truck and transport inspections and licenses for vehicles crossing Alberta from British Columbia. This urgent demand flows from my brooding on the manifold risks that Alberta citizens run every day…
Beat that global warming
I have to admit I’m grateful for the desperate cold that we have been suffering these past weeks. Surprised but grateful. Grateful that our political masters have apparently solved Global Warming. And surprised that all it took was the simple…
NDP Alberta: we can be better
This is the anniversary of the NDP victory in Alberta. This is what I wrote in my personal diary one year ago today. “Well, the sun rose, and I am now calm, but deeply ashamed and disappointed. Alberta exceptionalism is…
The Law of Unexpected Consequences for Governments
Any law, rule or regulation will always, by virtue of its universal application, have consequences that are unexpected. This might be the most ignored law in the political universe. Governments think that the consequences of their laws will be limited…
Regulating behaviour: You can’t suck and blow (or can you?)
An old law professor of mine said you can’t suck and blow at the same time. Turns out you can. The councillors that so strenuously object to Uber have many arguments that, on their face, sound compelling. People do not…