Scott Reid's goal is to extend to small landowners a measure of the extensive protections already extended, by Canadian law, to the property rights of the great and the powerful.

Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was released from hospital last week after emergency surgery. In a mostly hostile review of Bob Plamondon’s Blue Thunder: The Truth about Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper, Scott Reid relates how Mulroney was able to outbid the Liberals for the non-ideological centre.