2024-09-23

“It is incomprehensible that a country would learn that there may be foreign government collaborators walking its halls of power,” writes the Globe and Mail editorial board, “and then take no discernible action. Ottawa’s lack of urgency in so serious a matter is corrosive to voters’ trust in democracy, and raises questions about Canada's willingness to defend itself.”

Quite right.

Speaking of taking things seriously, here is the definitive line (by Jen Gerson) from the multi-contributor feature collection, in the November edition of the Walrus, speculating at life under the presumptive winner of the next federal election:

“My concern with [Pierre] Poilievre isn't that he's polarizing but, rather, like [Justin] Trudeau before him, that he's unserious.”

Reports about the death of Moore’s law may well be greatly exaggerated, but they do seem to double every two years.