When I accepted the position as President of the Winston Churchill Society of Vancouver Island it was for three reasons.

First, the organisation although small was well served by its existing Board members all of whom knew what they wanted to contribute and were doing so, leaving me the luxury of staying out of the way.

In researching the first chapter of Canada’s Excellent Future entitled 'The World We’re In', I was reading some of the pieces in the book Canadian Political Thought edited by H.D. Forbes.

Two speeches by John A. MacDonald and Wilfred Laurier were a fascinating time machine back to a time when Canada was making itself and reflecting on the choices it had to create the conditions for best in class outcomes.

Remembering Neville Chamberlain 

Munich: The Price of Peace

Winston Spencer Churchill: The Last Lion.

The best public policy has the dual benefits of being morally sensible and economically beneficial.

The central premise of Canada's Excellent Future is that the market economy and social justice are two sides of the same coin (*see bottom of blog).

The market economy is a vast wonderful open vibrant space that gives people as individuals or groups the chance to profit or not to profit from their intelligence, industry, and discipline and is essential to a successful social democracy.