March 2018 - William Gairdner

The Scandal and Shame of Canada’s Government Debt

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Post published:March 27, 2018
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This is an “Executive Report” on Canadian Government Debt, as of 2014, prepared by The Fraser Institute of Vancouver. This Report is highly instructive, both to Canadians who have to live with the consequences, and to non-Canadians curious to see…

Canada’s Multi-Tiered Medical System

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Post published:March 26, 2018
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This is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of my book The Trouble With Canada … Still! (2010). The Chapter is entitled “Medical Mediocrity: An Autopsy on the Canadian “Health Care” System.” I urge visitors to get the book and read…

An Educated Muslim Opposes Multiculturalism

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Post published:March 26, 2018
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This is a guest post by my friend Professor Salim Mansur, a Muslim immigrant to Canada from Pakistan, who teaches Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. He manages to confuse further his already confused opponents when, in debating…

Totalitarian Lawyers: 1943 and 2018

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Post published:March 20, 2018
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This is a Guest Post by my Canadian colleague Howard Rotberg – A Lawyer, the Publisher of Mantua Books, and most recently, the author of The Ideological Path to Submission …and what we can do about it. It is a…

A Gentle Corrective for David Frum

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Post published:March 13, 2018
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My Son recently sent me this interesting interview with David Frum on the Rubin Report. David Rubin is a disarming sort of chap, who gives the impression of having a real interest in honest and well-rounded debate from any and…

The Dramatic Shift From Classical Liberalism, to Libertarian-Socialism

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Post published:March 9, 2018
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Here is another Table, which I expanded upon in my book The Great Divide (on pages 26-30) , that sharply illustrates the regime-change in Canada since the middle of the last century. A Table very similar to this could be…

The Great Divide of The Western World

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Post published:March 8, 2018
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This is the first Table that appears in The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree (which you can see under “Books” on this website). I had a little trouble formatting the spacing when I lifted it…