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 | | Or, "Why I don't the Conservative Party of Canada to be thorough-goingly libertarian." In yesterday's National Post, here, Brian Chen, self-described as "a teenaged, card-carrying Conservative living in Ontario," argued against "social conservatism" in the Conservative Party and "for small government and personal freedom." I disagree with Mr. |
 | | Many, but by no means all, libertarians do fail to take into account "intermediating institutions." Partly, I suspect, this comes from an over emphasis on economics in much of libertarian analysis, and partly because of an ignorance of the history of methods of social provision prior to the development of the welfare state. |
 | | Given the lengths to which Martin and his team have gone just to prolong the life of their minority government for a few more months, one has to wonder how many more ethical niceties they would dispense with if, like Jean Chrétien, they, too, were faced with the implosion of the Canadian federation. |
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