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The Bethune Debacle: $2.5 Million to Honour a Communist: Rod Taylor
Even political enemies should show respect for the dead. That respect, however, needn’t result in an inappropriate exaltation of one who damaged the world as much as Norman Bethune did. Many of us have made mistakes in our lives; we have said and done things we later wish we could unsay or undo. I don’t know whether Norman Bethune ever gained enough understanding of the world to regret helping Mao Tse-Tung conquer China and unleash the slaughter of 60 million Chinese. But I regret that a Canadian should have been a supporter of that slaughter.
Chartered Accountability: “Don’t Blame Us! We’re Only Lawmakers!”: Rod Taylor
When two children are playing and suddenly find themselves having to explain a broken window, a lamp or a vase, it is classic that they might point the finger and blame each other. In fact, the tendency to look for a scapegoat goes back to our earliest ancestors, Adam and Eve. The attempt to escape personal accountability is as old as human experience.