Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on the Policy Hawk Substack, where you can find incisive analysis of Canadian defence and security. It was published on May 18th, Victoria Day. Today, the United States’ Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge Colby, announced that the Department of Defence “is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on […]
Canada’s military recruitment is up. That much is true. But, as often is the case, the Devil is in the details. In the last fiscal year, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) “enrolled 7,310 Regular Force members, surpassing its recruiting target of 6,957 new members and marking the highest number of enrolments in more than 30
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When I was a kid in the 1960s, my mother took me to see a really funny movie titled The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. It was directed by that great Canadian, Norman Jewison, who I had the pleasure to meet once, because I became friends with his kids through a mutual friend.
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There has been much uncertainty and even violence on the matter of Indigenous treaty rights to fishing and hunting. For example as The Narwhal reported on June 5, 2023: “In 2020, Fisheries and Oceans Canada shut the elver fishery down early, after confrontations broke out between Mi’kmaw fishers and federal fisheries officers. Later that same
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Those who have read the history of English jurisprudence and are knowledgeable about the contributions of the jury system to assuring fair trials and ensuring that justice is dispensed to the accused would not accept the politicization of a system of justice that has served the Western civilization for millennia. One of the greatest contributions
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In January 2023, the Trudeau government passed the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act – a two-year foreign buyer ban. In February 2024, the ban was extended for another two years, and is now in place until January 2027. The ban has proved popular, with a poll by Research Co. released
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Editor’s note: In a departure from regular programming, I am publishing a paper explicitly aimed at progressives. Drawing on examples from vampire bat colonies to immigration policy, the author warns that altruistic societies will collapse without built-in safeguards, and argues that the perpetuation of progressive values is predicated on a stable, resilient society. Why am
Unfortunately, we live in a violent world, but not as violent as it has been. In 2011, Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, and public intellectual Stephen Pinker wrote a book called The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Pinker argued that violence around the world has declined in both the long term and
Should Canada’s Criminal Code Become More “Woke”? Read More »
Nearly every newspaper or magazine article that has anything to do with Canadian defence policy inevitably mentions that Canada is far below the 2% spending target that all NATO member countries are supposed to meet. Not all members meet this target, and Canada is one of the bottom three or four countries. There was yet
The 2% Solution: How Canada Can Meet Its NATO Spending Obligation Sensibly Read More »
When I go on X, or Twitter, or Ex-Twitter or X-Twitter, my feed is often full of ideological people pushing the idea that Land Value Taxes (LVTs) are the solution to many of the problems of modern life, and the housing crisis in particular. I don’t agree, and I find these people naïve. The idea
That’s Not Fair! What Should Governments Subsidize? Read More »
