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.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.