Okay, perhaps this title is a bit of an oxymoron, but good manners tend to rise and fall in politics, and we seem to be diving into a pretty deep hole at the moment. For example, Christia Freeland is not a comedian, and she shouldn’t try to be. Her comment in the House last week…
Month: May 2024
Social Commentary
Remote Work in Ottawa Sounds More Remote
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The COVID truce seems to be over. Public sector unions have become used to working from home and have decided somehow that it is now their right. Civil Service employers have decided to return to the letter of their contracts. It is a summer of contract negotiations; both sides have forgotten what the cooperative method…
Politics
Lobbying: Inequity in Government
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There is no such thing as bad publicity, at least not in Pierre Poilievre’s poll-pumped world right now. He attracted a complete swarm of attention last week when he pronounced that lobbyists were useless. The immediate reaction from both left- and right-leaning media was, “Then why do you keep meeting with them?” I’m more interested…
Social Commentary
Free Expression Isn’t Free
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The Israeli war protests on university campuses raised a lot of discussion this week about who is in the right and who is wrong. To make that decision, it is necessary to draw a line between what is a protest and what is an illegal imposition of a group’s will upon the populace. Protesters who…