Just as on housing, young people don’t share their parents’ stiff upper lips and are not content to just receive supbar care. Crestview’s October survey of 2000 Canadians found that as much as seventy percent of Gen Z decided voters are open to “pay for service” health care.
The fall economic update proposed significant new regulatory burdens on Canadian businesses to ostensibly lower prices for consumers. However, these proposals are ill-conceived, miss the root causes of the problem, and simply shift costs from one group of consumers to another.
The kernels of tolerance, due process, impartial administration, and self-government may not have emerged with liberalism, but it was liberalism that extended these important political institutions to everyone. It’s in post-liberals’ interest to let us forget this. It’s frustrating when liberals neglect it.
There’s just enough in recent economic data to keep Trudeau and his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, hopeful that a deep downturn will never come. It’s hard to overstate how much Trudeau and Freeland are invested in that soft-landing scenario. Their political futures hinge on it.
The Israel-Palestine debate is just one of many examples of identitarian political sensitivities trumping the free expression of ideas. Many universities seem more concerned with the psychological comfort of students and faculty than with the open discussion of important issues.
University scholars don’t have a positive right to publicly-subsidized employment or research and universities don’t have a positive right to their current levels of public funding. There’s nothing sacrosanct about the current funding model.
This week, Hub readers engaged in topics ranging from how Hamas is viewed by Palestinians, what Canada can do to update its supply management mentality, the lack of trust in Canadian news media, balancing the budget, and what skyrocketing MAiD deaths tell us about Canadian society.
While MAiD is often celebrated as an exercise of autonomy, equality, and self-determination, it’s difficult to see those ideals reflected in these numbers. The data in these reports seem to speak more to our societal failures than our human rights triumphs.
The Liberal government has so far failed to follow through on its own promise to introduce a law restricting online speech in Canada. It appears to be stuck, and long may it remain so.
Xavier arrived in Provence in the 1990s as an outsider. He was from the North of France and had worked in Champagne and Bordeaux. He wasn’t a farmer by training, or even the son of a farmer; he was (is) a scientist. Not held back by tradition, he is happy to experiment.
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