Commentary
We in Canada like to say that we have a national sport—hockey (it’s ice hockey, but no one says that here because we all know what we are talking about). Some may say lacrosse is our national sport, but I want to suggest that we have it all wrong.
Our national pastime, the one thing that takes up most of our time, attention, and money, is, wait for it, national inquiries (also known as royal commissions, commissions of inquiry, or, let’s face it, “how best to spend taxpayers’ money on an issue”).
Since Confederation we have had 450 royal commissions alone!…