So Many Nanny-Statists to Thank...

A very respectable 18th place finish for yours truly in the Western Standard's "Liberty 100" - 100 Canadians who "distinguished themselves in 2008, or over a lifetime, in the defence of liberty."

 

The top ten:

 

1. Ezra Levant www.ezralevant.com  

 

2. Michael Walker Fraser Institute www.fraserinstitute.org  

 

3. Marc Emery Cannabis Culture magazine www.cannabisculture.com  

 

4. Mark Mullins Fraser Institute www.fraserinstitute.org

 

5. Peter Jaworski Institute for Liberal Studies www.liberalstudies.ca

 

6. John Williamson Manning Centre for Building Democracy www.manningcentre.ca

 

7. Peter Holle Frontier Centre for Public Policy www.fcpp.org

 

8. Dennis Young Libertarian Party www.libertarian.ca

 

9. Mark Steyn Maclean's magazine www.steynonline.com

 

10. Jean-Serge Brisson Ontario Libertarian Party www.libertarian.on.ca

 

More here. Hard to argue with this, however.