From immigration to growing crime, Canada’s worst problems are all self-inflicted

From immigration to growing crime, Canada’s worst problems are all self-inflicted COMMENTARY 18 AUGUST 2026 i The growing costs of Canada’s own goals DAVID POLANSKY VIEW BIO ARTICLE SUMMARY QUOTES There is an old rule of politics, often attributed to the great British historian Robert Conquest, that the simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. If a state is a kind of bureaucratic organization (and it is), how might this insight apply to Canada? Let’s take this recent story, in which Global News broke …