Connecting With Our Roots
If you were to blurt out something like “No taxation without representation” in Canada, you could well get tagged as too American and shoved out of the public discussion. But hang on for seven centuries. We have a right to that slogan, too.
I’m not even impressed with the claim that being like Americans is a Bad Thing, especially as the basis for an entire political philosophy. But never mind for now what currently has me lunging for my quill and parchment is that no taxation without representation, though a slogan of the American revolutionaries, is not an American invention at all. It is a part of our heritage because it is a principle of the British Constitution going back to 1297. Continue Reading »
