Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! May is C3RF Funding Drive month - see notice below! Note! C3RF is in need of a volunteer English-French translator for the “update”. Please contact r.cooper@canadiancitizens.org if interested in helping out. The democracy-despotism spectrum Last week’s update noted that Friedrich Hayek, writing as WWII raged, plotted the road from Western liberal democracy to despotism and, ultimately, serfdom. He observed that free men and women could set themselves on such a path when they take the ideas that underpin Western civilization for granted and look for the “rapid satisfaction” of related imperfections. The time period immediately followin

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! C3RF is in need of a volunteer English-French translator for the “update”. Please contact r.cooper@canadiancitizens.org if interested in helping out. Wartime leadership Prime Minister Trudeau is fond of conflating the Wuhan virus predicament with the nation’s life and death struggle against totalitarianism and fascism during WWII. He notes that the country is in the midst of its “most significant civic mobilization” since that conflict and it is up to Canadians to sacrifice their routines and their liberties to gain normalcy at some unknown time in the future. This new war will be difficult as “the frontlines are everywhere” but rest

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! C3RF is in need of a volunteer English-French translator for the “update”. Please contact r.cooper@canadiancitizens.org if interested in helping out. Death spiral Well-trained pilots have a healthy respect for the in-flight phenomena known as the death or graveyard spiral. The hazard is normally associated with in-cloud conditions under what is known as Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). The death spiral can come about if a pilot remains in a banked (steady turn) attitude for an extended period of time resulting in a “seat-of-the-pants” sensation of being in a wings-level condition. It all has to do with the movement, or non-movement, of

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! C3RF is in need of a volunteer English-French translator for the “update”. Please contact r.cooper@canadiancitizens.org if interested in helping out. Read! A Canadian cleric speaks out on biased, unCanadian 'Conversion Therapy' legislation A practising Canadian cleric asks “where is the justice” when it comes to Senate Bill S-202 and House of Commons Bill C-8 (conversion therapy). These two pieces of legislation track each other in forbidding therapies that move an individual away from unwanted, non-traditional sexual orientations and identities while promoting those that move children towards them. In doing so the good Reverend asks

Editor’s Note: A practising Canadian cleric asks “where is the justice” when it comes to Senate Bill S-202 and House of Commons Bill C-8 (conversion therapy). These two pieces of legislation track each other in forbidding therapies that move an individual away from unwanted, non-traditional sexual orientations and identities while promoting those that move children towards them. In doing so the good Reverend asks many good questions and makes many good observations. The Reverend's letter is well worth the read and a great deal of thought – particularly by Canadian Senators and Members of Parliament. Dear members of the Canadian Senate, PM Trudeau and House of Commons I am writing regarding y

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! Sign petition and say “NO” to Bills S-202 and C-8 (Conversion Therapy) This issue is flying under the radar screen due to the attention being paid to the Wuhan virus crisis. Nevertheless, it represents a major attack by government forces on the freedom of individual Canadians to live their lives in accordance with their own beliefs and for parents to protect their children from malformed, unsubstantiated and dangerous therapies – therapies that stand to inflict permanent damage. Flatten the curve, crush the Charter As Canada wades deeper into the panic generated by the Wuhan virus crisis, we see a crescendo of calls to “flatten the cu