There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems – including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity – than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.