Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.