Conrad Black: Resistance to the summer jobs nonsense is heating up

There has been plenty of comment already about the federal government requiring applicants for certain summer employment programs to pledge support for its permissive abortion policies as a condition for participation in such programs. These comments came essentially from aggrieved organizations that had to curtail some of their activities as a result of these rules, and from commentators, including me. Of greater natural interest was a recent generally circulated letter from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Cardinal Collins. Cardinal Collins is a very judicious man who never strays out of his proper areas of concern and is far from a controversialist. Canada, too, has had its share of attention-seeking clergy, such as Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry, endlessly opining on economic matters like the personification of Lenin’s useful idiot, an earnest Christian socialist, or Bishop Remi de Roo, another anti-capitalist bishop, whose sails, however, were deprived of wind when it was revealed that he had squandered millions of dollars of church money in unauthorized real estate and horse-breeding ventures. -- More....