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In at least one sphere of contemporary public life, the social contract has been torn up. And as Hobbes foresaw, the results are nasty and brutish, though regrettably, all too long.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it, just as in...

Speak English where you shouldnt and you could face warrantless search and seizure

In the late 1980s, as then-defence minister Perrin Beatty was drafting new legislation to replace the controversial War Measures Act, one man’s words were on his mind. The man was Robert Stanfield.

Former defence minister Perrin Beatty, who drafted the Emergencies Act in the 1980s to replace the controversial War ...

OTTAWA — In the late 1980s, as then-defence minister Perrin Beatty was drafting new legislation to replace the controversial War Measures Act, one man’s words were on his mind.

In the late 1980s, as then-defence minister Perrin Beatty was drafting new legislation to replace the controversial War Measures Act, one mans words were on his mind.

OTTAWA - In the late 1980s, as then-defence minister Perrin Beatty was drafting new legislation to replace the controversial War Measures Act, one man’s words were on his mind.

Former defence minister and author of the Emergencies Act Beatty says the extraordinary powers granted under the act were intended to be met with extraordinary accountability on the part of the government.

A mandatory inquiry into Trudeau’s use of the act to quash anti-COVID-mandate blockades is ongoing