Joseph C. Ben-Ami

Reflections of unrepentant conservative

Welcome

This site hosts a collection of my columns, essays and speeches as well as a selection of my speeches and my radio and TV appearances. My goal is to provide thoughtful analysis of these issues and events from a conservative point of view. You may re-post, reproduce or distribute - for non-commercial purposes - anything of mine that you find here, but please include my name and a link back to this site if you do. For commercial use, please send me an email using the contact page.


Latest Additions

A Whiff of Totalitarianism
Tuesday, 01 May 2012

It's painful to witness the travails of a son trying desperately to measure up to the reputation of a famous father, especially when the son's efforts miss the mark so badly, which is what happened recently when Justin Trudeau suggested that he might support Quebec independence if Canada were ever to succumb to Stephen Harper's "hidden agenda" to do away with same-sex marriage and abortion.

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The economic impact of Ontario's Green Energy Plan
Tuesday, 07 February 2012

Exerpts from my discussion of the economic impact of Ontario's Green Energy Plan on The Lunch Bunch on CFRA Radio in Ottawa with host Rob Snow and fellow guest Nick Vandergragt.

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Defending free speech in Canada
Thursday, 15 December 2011

It has been a long time coming, but the Harper government finally seems ready to support the repeal of those provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act that prohibit speech that might expose identifiable groups to hate or ridicule. As the battle over Section 13 of the Act heats up, count on those opposed to free speech rolling out the oft-repeated line that if only there had been laws limiting its practice in Germany in the 1930s, the Nazis might never have come to power and there might never have been a Holocaust. In fact, the opposite is true.

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Brad Trost is right about Planned Parenthood funding
Wednesday, 28 September 2011

In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Conservative MP Brad Trost slammed the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for its handling of the decision to provide taxpayer funding to International Planned Parenthood. A spokesman for the Prime Minister, Andrew MacDougall, responded by saying that IPP satisfied the criteria set out by Parliament to qualify for funding under the G8 Maternal Health Initiative. This is flat out wrong.

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A new conservative magazine for Canada
Friday, 15 July 2011

In 1950 a relatively unknown group of political thinkers and activists in Quebec led by Pierre Trudeau founded the magazine Cité Libre. Their goal was to provide a platform for the development and dissemination of left-wing ideas that were not in vogue at that time in Quebec and that were difficult to get into print due to the political and social climate that existed in that province.

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