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Entries from June 2005

Canada’s Unhappy Birthday

David Frum wrote on June 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am

What a grim and troubling anniversary this coming July 1 will be.
Canada’s national day does not celebrate a declaration of independence (like America’s July 4), or a revolutionary upheaval (like France’s Bastille Day) or a moment of national redemption (like Mexico’s Cinco de Mayo).
July 1, 1867, was the day the British North America   more

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From Supremes, An Illusory “right”

David Frum wrote on June 21st, 2005 at 12:00 am

Is Medicare still legal? It is one of the many curiosities of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on private health insurance that Canadians do not truly know the answer to that question.
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” So wrote U.S. Supreme Court Chief   more

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Bad Decison, Good Result

David Frum wrote on June 14th, 2005 at 12:00 am

The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in the medicare case is a source of grim satisfaction. For two decades, the Supreme Court has been the tool and weapon of liberal Canada. What liberal Canada couldn’t get at the ballot box, it could count on the court to deliver in the name of law: abortion, native   more

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A Scandal So Immense

David Frum wrote on June 13th, 2005 at 12:00 am

Our Neighbors to the North Have Been Very, Very Naughty  more

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Eutopia Is Dead. What Now?

David Frum wrote on June 7th, 2005 at 12:00 am

LUCCA, Italy–Don’t let the dateline fool you. I’m not on holiday. On Wednesday, Dutch voters finished off the unwieldy and absurd EU constitution. That afternoon I got a hasty phone call from the organizers of a conference here in Tuscany. I had just published an article arguing that the defeat of the constitution was in   more

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Marianne Unfaithful

David Frum wrote on June 1st, 2005 at 12:00 am

French democracy has blundered its way to the right result. Most of the arguments advanced by the “non” side in Sunday’s referendum on the European Union Constitution were exaggerated, misleading, or outright falsehoods. And yet beneath those arguments was a larger truth that will likely also be recognized and acted upon by Dutch voters in   more

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