I present, Alberta Liberal Senator, Grant Mitchell. Whom, I add, is due to retire in 2026.
I’ve heard it said before, I didn’t believe it, but maybe a modern Liberal’s history really doesn’t start until 1968.

…ground down by your false consciousness (many up here think similarly about Canadian society)–from the estimable George Will:

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Many members of the liberal intelligentsia, that herd of independent minds, agree that other Americans comprise a malleable, hence vulnerable, herd whose “false consciousness” is imposed by corporate America. Therefore the herd needs kindly, paternal supervision by a cohort of protective herders. This means subordination of the bovine many to a regulatory government staffed by people drawn from the clever minority not manipulated into false consciousness.
Because such tutelary government must presume the public’s incompetence, it owes minimal deference to people’s preferences. These preferences are not really “theirs,” because the preferences derive from false, meaning imposed, consciousness. This convenient theory licenses the enlightened vanguard, the political class, to exercise maximum discretion in wielding the powers of the regulatory state…

David Brooks in the NY Times:

The Planning Fallacy

Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post:

A Ponzi scheme that should be fixed

Both, curiously, have Canadian connections.

HP Sauce revolt: Online fury over salt cut that ‘ruins the taste’

Via Uncle Meat