The PM and the Northern Gateway Pipeline

Stephen Harper (at the Vancouver Board of Trade): “It wouldn’t be B.C. without [protestors].”

Raymond Aron: “… politics will always remain the art of the irrevocable choice by fallible men in unforeseen circumstances and semi-ignorance.”[1]

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[1]Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals, intro by Harvey C. Mansfield, forward by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2009), p. 199.  Originally published in 1955.