Prior to the Canadian federal election earlier this year, I was speaking to my stepbrother and asked him if he was going to vote. He replied, “No! I want to send a message to those clowns inOttawa!” When I heard that, I said a few words about how refusing to vote sends no message at [...]
A recent article by Canadian Business says that if the Canadian healthcare system was managed like a business, it would be out of business. It is woefully inefficient and we are currently incapable of making it more efficient because we don’t even have the systems to obtain measurements about how it’s performing. As the old [...]
As I listened to discussion on the radio this morning about the latest mayoral debate in Toronto, it dawned on me that this kind of open discussion in the public forum about political candidates, platforms, policies and plans is something special. Not everyone in the world has the freedom to do this, and beyond that, [...]
I had an interesting chat with a friend and former colleague yesterday about the nature of the government bureaucracy in Ontario. I believe much of what we discussed applies to any jurisdiction in Canada and the United States. I’ve talked before on a number of other occasions about democratic government’s inherent aversion to risk. Part [...]
Soon after Canada and the United States declared war on Japan in December 1941, both countries took measures to move Japanese-Canadians and Japanese-Americans into internment camps. By February 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which authorized American military leaders to exclude anyone that they saw fit from large swaths of American territory. The order [...]
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