President of the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy

Joined January 2022
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Je suis sincÚrement désolé de vous partager de telles images un dimanche soir, mais à l'approche de l'été, les gens doivent savoir ce qui se passe sur les plages en matiÚre de racket organisé.
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From Mark Milke: BC premier David Eby has been creating problems in BC with his attachment to UNDRIP/DRIPA which undermines fee simple private property province-wide. Meanwhile, his anti-pipeline stance is helping separatist sentiment in Alberta. Quite the remarkable accomplishment in taking a wrecking ball to two provinces. @AristotleFdn Senior Fellow David Livingstone on this development. nationalpost.com/opinion/dav

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Appalling đŸ§” I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.
This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match. Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong. Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. đŸ§”âŹ‡ïž
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Your Friday art break: The Pine Tree at St. Tropez, Paul Signac, 1909.
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We've been posting some Canadian history about John Diefenbaker in the last few days including our book published last year about the same. As often happens, many people respond with the cancellation of the Avro Arrow by Diefenbaker and are critical of that decision. Best to read our book, Freedom Fighter, but here's an excerpt from it on the Avro Arrow by author Bob Plamondon. Bob details the "why" of that cancellation. nationalpost.com/opinion/the

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Brilliant, and an excellent illustration of why we cannot conceptualize how massive massively over-indebted governments are: wsj.com/business/trillions-g

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Zing!
For instance, @MarcMillerVM’s own fake-news posts about “unmarked graves,” which resulted in the arson of dozens of places of worship across Canada? It seems that this falls into the category of undermining “social stability,” right Marc?
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Integration matters as much as generosity in immigration.
As a journalist, I embedded with multiple groups of migrants during 2015-16 "Syrian" wave (only about a third were fleeing the civil war in Syria, from my observation). I even lived in a smuggler's safe house in Istanbul, waiting for weather conditions to permit a dinghy crossing from Izmir to Lesbos. I went into that experience basically an open-borders person and left a restrictionist. Merkel's flinging the gates to more than 1 million newcomers was madness, sheer madness. Even if these were the most aspirational migrants imaginable --- and they weren't, gotta be honest --- the numbers, the cultural distance, and the conditions of European society should've prompted a rethink. But no. Wir schaffen das. I tried to put myself in the shoes of native working classes in the transit countries (the Balkans, Hungary, etc.) and the recipients (Germany, Sweden, etc.). It was obvious that they would experience it as a cataclysm. Even if most wouldn't become victims of crime, this many newcomers were bound to generate acute incohesion experienced at the street, social services, and housing levels, mostly burdening the native poor and those on the lower rungs of the labor market. The engine of assimilation, not particularly robust in most of Europe to begin with, breaks down in the face of sheer numbers. In retrospect, I've come to believe that this was the single worst and most consequential decision taken by European leaders in the 21st century. I don't understand it. I remember @DouglasKMurray telling me at the early stages that the best way to help was in-country, meaning humanitarian assitance in the Middle East and North Africa, not by bringing them over. He was 100% correct.
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I was unaware of @jonkay 's column on this. Nice dissection.
The reason Barbara Perry never published her list of 300 hate groups is that it doesn’t exist. We’ve known this for five years. (She told me in 2021 that she couldn’t publish it because the public wasn’t sufficiently educated to understand her methods) nationalpost.com/opinion/jon

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Exactly.
Wagner holds press conferences like this one every year to lecture Canadians that criticizing court decisions amounts to portraying judges “as partisan actors, or described as obstacles to the will of the people.” But if the judiciary wants to be “sheltered from all politicization,” maybe the Chief Justice shouldn’t be holding press conferences wading into political debates. You can’t appoint yourself a public commentator and then claim immunity from public criticism. Canadians have every right to object when courts invent rights found nowhere in the constitutional text or effectively legislate from the bench.
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đŸ›ïž What is the purpose of Canada's Notwithstanding Clause? To keep the judiciary's power in check.  Learn more about why this matters for Canada: aristotlefoundation.org/real
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đŸ›ïž What is the purpose of Canada's Notwithstanding Clause? To keep the judiciary's power in check.  Learn more about why this matters for Canada: aristotlefoundation.org/real
 #cdnpoli #realitycheck #canadiandemocracy #constitution
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Mark Milke retweeted
Dear Muslims who believe that "Israel is only 76 years old," The word Israel is mentioned 43 times in the Quran. Israel is not younger than your grandma. Israel is older than Islam.
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For those who are confused: supporting jihadists who attack Israel is like thinking the Nazis were the "good guys" in WWII Sam Harris @MakingSenseHQ
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Mubarak on refusenik Palestinian leaders.
Even Arab leaders admit it. Everyone is sharing the Bill Clinton clip where he describes how Yasser Arafat rejected a generous peace offer at Camp David that would have given the Palestinians a state on 96 percent of the West Bank, land swaps, and a capital in East Jerusalem. Clinton says Arafat lied to him and that the Palestinian leadership never actually wanted a two-state solution. They wanted to destroy Israel. It’s a video often shared by people like @VividProwess, and it’s an important one for people to see. Of course, critics immediately dismiss it. They claim Clinton is biased or he’s pro-Israel. They’ll tell you that you cannot trust the American perspective. Ok, so let us set that aside. Now watch this. In this powerful interview, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a major Arab leader who was directly involved in negotiations, says exactly the same thing from the Arab side. He talks about the Mena House Conference in Cairo as well as the Camp David negotiations of 1978. All failed because of the Palestinians repeatedly rejecting any offer. The Oslo accords were signed but because Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were not involved, they derailed the accords and any chance for peace by initiating 4 years of terrorist suicide attacks in Israel. Then came the second Camp David negotiations in 2000 which Arafat agreed to, then rejected and instead initiated the Second Intifada. Mubarak explains how the Palestinians refused to even participate in the Mena House conference of 1977. He describes repeated opportunities they were given, including a detailed document that called for Israeli withdrawal from the Samaria, Judea and Gaza, security arrangements during a transitional period, and other major concessions. The Israelis were willing to negotiate on difficult issues like who would control security. The Palestinians, according to Mubarak, kept saying no and wasting chance after chance. He speaks with clear frustration about how for decades the Palestinian side has rejected peace initiatives and realistic compromises. The video further shows footage from the PLO representative in 1977, as well as old footage of Egyptian president Sadat who was involved in the Mena House and first Camp David negotiations of 1978. This perhaps is far more impactful than Clinton’s account because it is not a Western or Israeli voice. It is prominent Arab leaders who lived the negotiations, who represented the broader Arab world, and who had zero incentive to defend Israel. When leaders from both sides of the table describe the same pattern of Palestinian rejectionism and violence, it becomes much harder to dismiss as bias. The pattern is clear across decades and across different voices
 generous offers, repeated refusals, and continued demands for everything while giving nothing in return. This is not ancient history. It is the core reason the conflict continues today. If you value the truth, please share.
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Terrific column from Christopher Dummit on the @CBC and @APTNtv media ambush on retired RCMP veterans. "The retirees faced a Chinese-Cultural-Revolution-style struggle session in which they were made to answer for the alleged evils of the RCMP and its history." nationalpost.com/opinion/chr

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Thankfully, these turtles prioritize saving their friend instead of recording their demise with a cell phone.
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Thanks to @Aaronpete_ for this and a great discussion. Aaron is a terrific example of how we can discuss tough topics with respect and thoughfulness in a world of instant outrage. @AristotleFdn
Do we have too much victim mentality? I spoke with @MarkMilke, the author of 'The Victim Cult' about how we approach people who are victims, how to recognize their experiences but not allow people to get stuck there. To be honest, I struggled with this issue growing up, and trying to figure out how I approach my own history. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/lecOTjOXd2g?si=SmRl

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"Conspiracy theories" is exactly the right way to understand the fantastical claims about residential schools. "It is simply impossible to avoid breaking the proposed law by 'downplaying' or 'minimizing' the harms of residential schools if you merely insist that it’s borderline insanity to equate Canada’s residential schools legacy with the Holocaust." From @TerryGlavin nationalpost.com/opinion/ter

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