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Gordon Gibson was born in Vancouver in 1937. He attended the University of British Columbia (B.A. Honours Mathematics and Physics '59), Harvard Business School (MBA - Distinction - '61) and subsequently did research work in political science at the London School of Economics. In politics, he served as Assistant to the Prime Minister (1968-72) and ran in three federal elections. He was elected to the Legislature of British Columbia in 1974, was re-elected in 1975 and served as both MLA and Leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party 1975-79. Mr. Gibson is a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, a member of the Advisory Boards of the UBC Graduate School of Journalism and of the UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and was awarded the Order of British Columbia in June 2008. His latest book is “A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy: Respect the Collective, Promote the Individual”. (Fraser Institute, Vancouver.)

    Articles by Gordon Gibson

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    Issue Article: The Meaning of Treason: Unintelligable Apart from Primacy of the Individual

    Posted: March 1, 2010

    “Is treason merely a relativistic concept?” asks Gordon Gibson in this essay on the necessary primacy of the individual. After all, the author points out, “The word describes a significant attack on the fundamental order of things, usually a form of governance. But if that order of things is illegitimate in the eyes of the viewer – dictatorships or theocracies as seen by Westerners or godless democracies as seen by the godly”—we are forced to ask if there a more absolute idea that would define treason as a betrayal of the individual or of human rights.