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ABOUT — CAYLAN FORD Caylan Ford is an international affairs expert with a background in China and human rights. She earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, then relocated to Washington DC to pursue a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University. LITIGATION — CAYLAN FORD Litigation — Caylan Ford. This page is intended to answer common questions about a defamation claim that I have brought against Karim A. Jivraj, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star Newspaper, the New Democratic Party, Press Progress, Progress Alberta, and agents thereof. More information will follow. ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE' On fighting back against 'cancel culture'. Caylan Ford. November 16, 2020. A year and a half ago, I was on my way to winning a seat in the Alberta legislature. Today, thanks to a concerted campaign of defamation by the New Democratic Party and its allies, I am borderline unemployable. In Alberta’s 2019 provincial election, I was one ofthe
CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words). An excerpt: Fo THE HOUR OF DEPARTURE The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. The statement was more prescient than I meant it to be. Little over three months later, the bolt struck (my own Meletus finally got his way) and in the span of about four hours my political candidacy, and life as I knew it, ended. ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA" On writing "Letter from Masanjia". Caylan Ford. June 6, 2019. Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary Letter from Masanjia. I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that theChina-based crew
CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO Wall Street Journal: The Cultural Revolution Comes to North America. Caylan Ford. April 8, 2019. My friend Anastasia Lin published an op-ed in the April 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal describing my case, and outlining parallels between our current “call-out culture” and the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. CAYLAN FORDDONATECONTACTABOUTBLOG Apologia. Caylan Ford. April 6, 2019. Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands ofvoters.
ABOUT — CAYLAN FORD Caylan Ford is an international affairs expert with a background in China and human rights. She earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, then relocated to Washington DC to pursue a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University. LITIGATION — CAYLAN FORD Litigation — Caylan Ford. This page is intended to answer common questions about a defamation claim that I have brought against Karim A. Jivraj, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star Newspaper, the New Democratic Party, Press Progress, Progress Alberta, and agents thereof. More information will follow. ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE' On fighting back against 'cancel culture'. Caylan Ford. November 16, 2020. A year and a half ago, I was on my way to winning a seat in the Alberta legislature. Today, thanks to a concerted campaign of defamation by the New Democratic Party and its allies, I am borderline unemployable. In Alberta’s 2019 provincial election, I was one ofthe
CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words). An excerpt: Fo THE HOUR OF DEPARTURE The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. The statement was more prescient than I meant it to be. Little over three months later, the bolt struck (my own Meletus finally got his way) and in the span of about four hours my political candidacy, and life as I knew it, ended. ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA" On writing "Letter from Masanjia". Caylan Ford. June 6, 2019. Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary Letter from Masanjia. I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that theChina-based crew
CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO Wall Street Journal: The Cultural Revolution Comes to North America. Caylan Ford. April 8, 2019. My friend Anastasia Lin published an op-ed in the April 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal describing my case, and outlining parallels between our current “call-out culture” and the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LAWTON: OUTRAGE CULTURE AND THE Andrew Lawton is a fantastic interviewer. Here I speak with him (very briefly!) about my plans to pursue legal action against Press Progress and the NDP. But mostly we talk about our censorious outrage culture, its chilling effect on free expression DONATE — CAYLAN FORD Donate. Back to Top. Powered by SquarespaceSquarespace CHINA'S WAR ON RELIGION China's war on religion - and why its victims are ignored. Caylan Ford. May 7, 2021. I recently wrote an essay for ArcDigital about China’s lesser-known contemporary genocide, which targets the Buddhist discipline Falun Dafa. The aim of this piece is not really to shed light on an under-reported human rights issue (though it does dothat).
PODCAST: WHEN THE MOB COMES FOR YOU “What tactics are acceptable in a political campaign? Are some things out of bounds? When politics become ‘total war,’ what damage is done?” These are among the questions I discussed recently with Joel Crichton, an Edmonton-based psychotherapist and curator INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLE SMITH ON CQHR 770 I was very grateful to Danielle Smith for having me on her program recently to explain why I made the decision to resign as the UCP candidate in Calgary-Mountain View, to answer some of the charges against me, and to call for a renewed commitment to good INTERVIEW WITH PROF. CASS SUNSTEIN ON 'LAPIDATIONS' AND September 26, 2019. I had the pleasure of connecting with Prof. Cass Sunstein recently to discuss online outrage, public shaming, group polarization, and the associated challenges for deliberative democracy. Prof. Sunstein is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioural Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University LawSchool.
CAYLAN FORDDONATECONTACTABOUTBLOG Apologia. Caylan Ford. April 6, 2019. Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands ofvoters.
ABOUT — CAYLAN FORD Caylan Ford is an international affairs expert with a background in China and human rights. She earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, then relocated to Washington DC to pursue a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University. LITIGATION — CAYLAN FORD Litigation — Caylan Ford. This page is intended to answer common questions about a defamation claim that I have brought against Karim A. Jivraj, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star Newspaper, the New Democratic Party, Press Progress, Progress Alberta, and agents thereof. More information will follow. CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE' On fighting back against 'cancel culture'. Caylan Ford. November 16, 2020. A year and a half ago, I was on my way to winning a seat in the Alberta legislature. Today, thanks to a concerted campaign of defamation by the New Democratic Party and its allies, I am borderline unemployable. In Alberta’s 2019 provincial election, I was one ofthe
DONATE — CAYLAN FORD Donate. Back to Top. Powered by SquarespaceSquarespace THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words). An excerpt: Fo ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA" On writing "Letter from Masanjia". Caylan Ford. June 6, 2019. Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary Letter from Masanjia. I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that theChina-based crew
WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO Wall Street Journal: The Cultural Revolution Comes to North America. Caylan Ford. April 8, 2019. My friend Anastasia Lin published an op-ed in the April 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal describing my case, and outlining parallels between our current “call-out culture” and the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative CAYLAN FORDDONATECONTACTABOUTBLOG Apologia. Caylan Ford. April 6, 2019. Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands ofvoters.
ABOUT — CAYLAN FORD Caylan Ford is an international affairs expert with a background in China and human rights. She earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, then relocated to Washington DC to pursue a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University. LITIGATION — CAYLAN FORD Litigation — Caylan Ford. This page is intended to answer common questions about a defamation claim that I have brought against Karim A. Jivraj, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star Newspaper, the New Democratic Party, Press Progress, Progress Alberta, and agents thereof. More information will follow. CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE' On fighting back against 'cancel culture'. Caylan Ford. November 16, 2020. A year and a half ago, I was on my way to winning a seat in the Alberta legislature. Today, thanks to a concerted campaign of defamation by the New Democratic Party and its allies, I am borderline unemployable. In Alberta’s 2019 provincial election, I was one ofthe
DONATE — CAYLAN FORD Donate. Back to Top. Powered by SquarespaceSquarespace THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words). An excerpt: Fo ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA" On writing "Letter from Masanjia". Caylan Ford. June 6, 2019. Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary Letter from Masanjia. I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that theChina-based crew
WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO Wall Street Journal: The Cultural Revolution Comes to North America. Caylan Ford. April 8, 2019. My friend Anastasia Lin published an op-ed in the April 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal describing my case, and outlining parallels between our current “call-out culture” and the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative THE HOUR OF DEPARTURE The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. The statement was more prescient than I meant it to be. Little over three months later, the bolt struck (my own Meletus finally got his way) and in the span of about four hours my political candidacy, and life as I knew it, ended. PODCAST: WHEN THE MOB COMES FOR YOU “What tactics are acceptable in a political campaign? Are some things out of bounds? When politics become ‘total war,’ what damage is done?” These are among the questions I discussed recently with Joel Crichton, an Edmonton-based psychotherapist and curator APOLOGIA — CAYLAN FORD Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands of voters. My CHINA'S WAR ON RELIGION China's war on religion - and why its victims are ignored. Caylan Ford. May 7, 2021. I recently wrote an essay for ArcDigital about China’s lesser-known contemporary genocide, which targets the Buddhist discipline Falun Dafa. The aim of this piece is not really to shed light on an under-reported human rights issue (though it does dothat).
INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LAWTON: OUTRAGE CULTURE AND THE Andrew Lawton is a fantastic interviewer. Here I speak with him (very briefly!) about my plans to pursue legal action against Press Progress and the NDP. But mostly we talk about our censorious outrage culture, its chilling effect on free expression INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLE SMITH ON CQHR 770 I was very grateful to Danielle Smith for having me on her program recently to explain why I made the decision to resign as the UCP candidate in Calgary-Mountain View, to answer some of the charges against me, and to call for a renewed commitment to good CAYLAN FORDDONATECONTACTABOUTBLOG Apologia. Caylan Ford. April 6, 2019. Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands ofvoters.
ABOUT — CAYLAN FORD Caylan Ford is an international affairs expert with a background in China and human rights. She earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, then relocated to Washington DC to pursue a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University. LITIGATION — CAYLAN FORD Litigation — Caylan Ford. This page is intended to answer common questions about a defamation claim that I have brought against Karim A. Jivraj, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star Newspaper, the New Democratic Party, Press Progress, Progress Alberta, and agents thereof. More information will follow. CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE' On fighting back against 'cancel culture'. Caylan Ford. November 16, 2020. A year and a half ago, I was on my way to winning a seat in the Alberta legislature. Today, thanks to a concerted campaign of defamation by the New Democratic Party and its allies, I am borderline unemployable. In Alberta’s 2019 provincial election, I was one ofthe
DONATE — CAYLAN FORD Donate. Back to Top. Powered by SquarespaceSquarespace THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words). An excerpt: Fo ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA" On writing "Letter from Masanjia". Caylan Ford. June 6, 2019. Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary Letter from Masanjia. I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that theChina-based crew
CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO Wall Street Journal: The Cultural Revolution Comes to North America. Caylan Ford. April 8, 2019. My friend Anastasia Lin published an op-ed in the April 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal describing my case, and outlining parallels between our current “call-out culture” and the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. CAYLAN FORDDONATECONTACTABOUTBLOG Apologia. Caylan Ford. April 6, 2019. Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands ofvoters.
ABOUT — CAYLAN FORD Caylan Ford is an international affairs expert with a background in China and human rights. She earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, then relocated to Washington DC to pursue a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University. LITIGATION — CAYLAN FORD Litigation — Caylan Ford. This page is intended to answer common questions about a defamation claim that I have brought against Karim A. Jivraj, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star Newspaper, the New Democratic Party, Press Progress, Progress Alberta, and agents thereof. More information will follow. CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE' On fighting back against 'cancel culture'. Caylan Ford. November 16, 2020. A year and a half ago, I was on my way to winning a seat in the Alberta legislature. Today, thanks to a concerted campaign of defamation by the New Democratic Party and its allies, I am borderline unemployable. In Alberta’s 2019 provincial election, I was one ofthe
DONATE — CAYLAN FORD Donate. Back to Top. Powered by SquarespaceSquarespace THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words). An excerpt: Fo ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA" On writing "Letter from Masanjia". Caylan Ford. June 6, 2019. Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary Letter from Masanjia. I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that theChina-based crew
CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO Wall Street Journal: The Cultural Revolution Comes to North America. Caylan Ford. April 8, 2019. My friend Anastasia Lin published an op-ed in the April 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal describing my case, and outlining parallels between our current “call-out culture” and the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative THE HOUR OF DEPARTURE The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. The statement was more prescient than I meant it to be. Little over three months later, the bolt struck (my own Meletus finally got his way) and in the span of about four hours my political candidacy, and life as I knew it, ended. PODCAST: WHEN THE MOB COMES FOR YOU “What tactics are acceptable in a political campaign? Are some things out of bounds? When politics become ‘total war,’ what damage is done?” These are among the questions I discussed recently with Joel Crichton, an Edmonton-based psychotherapist and curator CHINA'S WAR ON RELIGION China's war on religion - and why its victims are ignored. Caylan Ford. May 7, 2021. I recently wrote an essay for ArcDigital about China’s lesser-known contemporary genocide, which targets the Buddhist discipline Falun Dafa. The aim of this piece is not really to shed light on an under-reported human rights issue (though it does dothat).
INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LAWTON: OUTRAGE CULTURE AND THE Andrew Lawton is a fantastic interviewer. Here I speak with him (very briefly!) about my plans to pursue legal action against Press Progress and the NDP. But mostly we talk about our censorious outrage culture, its chilling effect on free expression INTERVIEW WITH PROF. CASS SUNSTEIN ON 'LAPIDATIONS' AND September 26, 2019. I had the pleasure of connecting with Prof. Cass Sunstein recently to discuss online outrage, public shaming, group polarization, and the associated challenges for deliberative democracy. Prof. Sunstein is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioural Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University LawSchool.
INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLE SMITH ON CQHR 770 I was very grateful to Danielle Smith for having me on her program recently to explain why I made the decision to resign as the UCP candidate in Calgary-Mountain View, to answer some of the charges against me, and to call for a renewed commitment to good CAYLAN FORDDONATECONTACTABOUTBLOG Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands of voters. ABOUT — CAYLAN FORD Caylan Ford is an international affairs expert with a background in China and human rights. She earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, then relocated to Washington DC to pursue a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University. LITIGATION — CAYLAN FORD Background . In 2018/2019, I was a conservative political candidate standing for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I was running in a swing seat against the then-Justice Minister for the democratic-socialist party, the NDP. CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name DONATE — CAYLAN FORD Donate. Back to Top. Powered by SquarespaceSquarespace THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words). An excerpt: Fo ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE' To be the target of a cancel campaign is psychologically shattering and often financially and professionally ruinous. But the harms of cancel culture go beyond the damage done to individuals. It erodes the boundary between public and private spheres, and ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA" Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary Letter from Masanjia . I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that theChina-based crew is
CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO My friend Anastasia Lin published an op-ed in the April 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal describing my case, and outlining parallels between our current “call-out culture” and the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. CAYLAN FORDDONATECONTACTABOUTBLOG Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands of voters. ABOUT — CAYLAN FORD Caylan Ford is an international affairs expert with a background in China and human rights. She earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, then relocated to Washington DC to pursue a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University. LITIGATION — CAYLAN FORD Background . In 2018/2019, I was a conservative political candidate standing for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I was running in a swing seat against the then-Justice Minister for the democratic-socialist party, the NDP. CONTACT — CAYLAN FORD Please complete the form below. Name * First Name DONATE — CAYLAN FORD Donate. Back to Top. Powered by SquarespaceSquarespace THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words). An excerpt: Fo ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE' To be the target of a cancel campaign is psychologically shattering and often financially and professionally ruinous. But the harms of cancel culture go beyond the damage done to individuals. It erodes the boundary between public and private spheres, and ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA" Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary Letter from Masanjia . I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that theChina-based crew is
CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO My friend Anastasia Lin published an op-ed in the April 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal describing my case, and outlining parallels between our current “call-out culture” and the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the Calgary Herald during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for the United Conservative THE HOUR OF DEPARTURE For most people who find themselves cast out from society or targeted by a capricious social media mob, it comes as a bolt from the blue. They had no warning, and didn’t know that they had stepped on an invisible tripwire that would cause their lives to be dismantled. PODCAST: WHEN THE MOB COMES FOR YOU “What tactics are acceptable in a political campaign? Are some things out of bounds? When politics become ‘total war,’ what damage is done?” These are among the questions I discussed recently with Joel Crichton, an Edmonton-based psychotherapist and curator INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LAWTON: OUTRAGE CULTURE AND THE Andrew Lawton is a fantastic interviewer. Here I speak with him (very briefly!) about my plans to pursue legal action against Press Progress and the NDP. But mostly we talk about our censorious outrage culture, its chilling effect on free expression CHINA'S WAR ON RELIGION I recently wrote a lengthy essay for ArcDigital about China’s lesser-known contemporary genocide, which targets the Buddhist discipline Falun Dafa. The aim of this piece is not really to shed light on an under-reported human rights issue (though it does do that). Rather, it is to explain why the Chi INTERVIEW WITH PROF. CASS SUNSTEIN ON 'LAPIDATIONS' AND I had the pleasure of connecting with Prof. Cass Sunstein recently to discuss online outrage, public shaming, group polarization, and the associated challenges for deliberative democracy. INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLE SMITH ON CQHR 770 I was very grateful to Danielle Smith for having me on her program recently to explain why I made the decision to resign as the UCP candidate in Calgary-Mountain View, to answer some of the charges against me, and to call for a renewed commitment to goodLitigation
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Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands of voters. My campaign brochures referenced the need for intellectual humility, a sense of gratitude, a commitment to truth, and the importance of nuanced and thoughtful dialogue across partisan lines. It was a bit unconventional, but the message resonated with voters who were exhausted by divisive and simplistic partisan rhetoric. With the election less than a month away, our internal polling showed a clear path to victory. We had a phenomenal campaign team, motivated volunteers, and we had out-fundraised the other parties by massive margins. Then, less than 24 hours before the the formal 28-day campaign period began, an NDP-affiliated organization _PressProgress _published an article accusing me of sympathizing with white supremacists.Caylan Ford
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THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHYCaylan Ford
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The American Mind recently ran a series of essays on life after cancelation . I was honoured to be invited to contribute, and wrote about the consolations of literature and philosophy. (Ironically there is no Boethius in this essay; one can only fit so much into a 2,000 words).An excerpt:
> Fortune can take away your friends and your property. It can rob you > of your health and leave you soaked in slander. But nothing that > happens to us can make us less virtuous, or just, or temperate, or > kind—not unless we allow ourselves to be changed for the worse. > Nothing can deprive us of our inner freedom, nor stop us from > setting honest deeds against dishonest words, or helping our > friends, or giving succor to those in need.>
> No matter the extremes of persecution that leave you feeling > rootless and without a home in the world, take it as a reminder that > there is a world elsewhere—an abiding home to which you can always > return, as long as you seek it. And if your suffering should seem > long, or if you’ve failed sometimes to meet it with courage and > equanimity, be glad: you still have time to shore up for yourself > the incorruptible spiritual treasures, which will endure.Read the rest
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May 7, 2021
CHINA'S WAR ON RELIGION - AND WHY ITS VICTIMS ARE IGNOREDCaylan Ford
May 7, 2021
I recently wrote a lengthy essay for ArcDigital about China’s lesser-known contemporary genocide, which targets the Buddhist discipline Falun Dafa. The aim of this piece is not really to shed light on an under-reported human rights issue (though it does do that). Rather, it is to explain why the Chinese Communist Party is incapable of admitting of any moral authority standing above its own. It also explores why the religious persecutions in general, and this one in particular, are often met with ambivalence in the West. Support for persecuted groups rarely correlates with the severity of the abuses they face. Too often, victim groups get attention when they're useful— useful in serving an ideological, political, or economic agenda, or bolstering the social status of their allies. Buried toward the end of the essay is a more inflammatory thesis: that far from supporting pluralism or tolerance, some strands of liberalism are simply more ideologically aligned with authoritarian Communism than we might like to admit.0 Likes
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November 16, 2020
ON FIGHTING BACK AGAINST 'CANCEL CULTURE'Caylan Ford
November 16, 2020
To be the target of a cancel campaign is psychologically shattering and often financially and professionally ruinous. But the harms of cancel culture go beyond the damage done to individuals. It erodes the boundary between public and private spheres, and so undermines trust and openness. It exerts a chilling effect on free inquiry, limiting our ability to seek truth or consider different perspectives without fear. It incentivizes a rush to judgement and to outrage, suffocating reason, charity, and generosity. By encouraging people to see each other as enemies and potential informants, it undermines the sense of solidarity that makes life in a free society possible. Defenders of cancel culture often say that they are merely holding powerful people accountable for abhorrent behaviour. Cancel culture is just about “consequences,” they say, as they assume the role of judge, jury, and executioner. I also believe in consequences and accountability. I think there should be consequences for people who wield career- and potentially life-destroying accusations frivolously and dishonestly for their own advantage. There should be consequences for deepening ideological polarization, and for eroding our capacity for openness and honest dialogue. I am sometimes asked what we can do to fight back against cancel culture. One answer is that we each try to uphold human virtues—real virtues, not the performative ones. We can commit ourselves to seeking truth, and refuse to give in to anger or assent to lies. We can be courageous in the defence of our friends. We can be slow to judge, and generous and humble when we do. We can also impose costs on those who use these tactics—_not_ by playing their socially destructive game, subjecting them to retributive humiliation, or unleashing a mob against them—but by holding them accountable for their actions under the law. And that iswhat I’m doing.
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December 6, 2019
THE HOUR OF DEPARTURECaylan Ford
December 6, 2019
For most people who find themselves cast out from society or targeted by a capricious social media mob, it comes as a bolt from the blue. They had no warning, and didn’t know that they had stepped on an invisible tripwire that would cause their lives to be dismantled. I at least had the benefit of knowing this would happen to me. It’s hard to explain why. Maybe it’s because I identify with dissidents and exiles, both in literature and in life. For years I’ve surrounded myself with refugees and asylum seekers who fled communist China after being imprisoned and tortured for their beliefs. In hearing their stories, I wondered how I might have fared in their position: would I have had their fortitude? Could I bear to be hated and lied about, and not give in to hating? What would I be willing to sacrifice in defence of truth? These seemed like important questions, even if literal torture and imprisonment were not in the cards. I didn’t think it would happen quite so soon, though, and I would have chosen the circumstances very differently. There is nobility in sacrificing for a principle or for a cause that you believe in. I didn’t get to choose what I was publicly destroyed over. Still, I can’t pretend that I didn’t know — especially after I decided to run for political office. A year ago on this day, I won a nomination to become the conservative party’s candidate for the Alberta legislature in the district of Calgary-Mountain View. The nomination race was gruelling: I had a toddler and an infant at home, and had to leave them almost every night to go door-knocking as temperatures plummeted to -25°C. If that wasn’t enough, I also had a….what should I call him? He was an erstwhile friend and failed political candidate who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, seemed determined to derail my candidacy. That madethings complicated.
On the night that I won the nomination, my first call was to the second-place finisher—a wonderful man who I’d campaigned against for five months. He congratulated me on the win, and I told him that I felt only a sense of dread and the terrible weight of responsibility. A seat in the provincial legislature is not a big deal, but hundreds of people had taken time out of their lives to put my name on a ballot to represent them. I took that seriously, and wanted desperately not to disappoint that trust. But the foreboding was something more: it was a vague and inchoate feeling that I was headed to some unknown doom. I told him that his fortunes may prove better than mine, recalling the final lines of the Apology — Socrates’ last words athis trial:
> _The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, > and you to live. Which is better God only knows._ The statement was more prescient than I meant it to be. Little over three months later, the bolt struck (my own Meletus finally got his way) and in the span of about four hours my political candidacy, and life as I knew it, ended. I spent the next month as the target of a mindless hate storm, being denounced and accused in the press of all sorts of heresies that I didn’t commit. People I had never met went on national media to attribute to me hateful and inane beliefs that I don’t actually hold, and to explain why I deserved to be ostracized and driven from the public square. Friends, perhaps fearing that the scandal would be contagious, left me. The conflagration destroyed my career and reputation, maybe irredeemably, because Google never forgets. As a public person, I had been vaporized and condemned to live as a kind of ghost: conscious, seeing everything, yet no longer part of the world. The poet Ovid described exile as a living death, and I can do no better. But I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention the good parts, of which there are many. The friends that stayed—and the new friendships that I’ve made—are one thing to be grateful for. Another is that suffering and loss have some inherent redemptive value, whether you think you’ve been treated unjustly or not. This is an indelible part of the human experience, and a profoundly valuable one. Suffering gives meaning to our lives (seriously),
making us both more empathetic and more fully human. Without it, we’re just wading in the shallows of life. Suffering also has a way of focusing the mind on questions of ultimate concern. Like experiences of awe and wonder, it is probably the primary way that we come to apprehend the transcendent and confront our own mortality. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn may have said it best, in one of the most beautiful passages in literature: > What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, > I'll spell it out for you right now. Do not pursue what is > illusionary -property and position: all that is gained at the > expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in > one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life -don't be > afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after > all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet > never fills the cup to overflowing… The sudden loss of worldly interests reminds you of the transience of these things, and the permanence of others. “How little have we lost,” wrote Seneca, “when the two finest things of all will accompany us wherever we go, universal nature and our individual virtue. Believe me, this was the intention of whoever formed the universe that only the most worthless of our possessions should come into the power of another. Whatever is best for a human being lies outside human control: it can be neither given nor taken away.” Which brings me back to Socrates, and the purpose of this blog post, which is only to highlight the few lines that preceded the one quotedabove.
> Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know this of > a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or > after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods; nor has my > own approaching end happened by mere chance. But I see clearly that > to die and be released was better for me; and therefore the oracle > gave no sign. For which reason also, I am not angry with my > accusers, or my condemners; they have done me no harm, although > neither of them meant to do me any good; and for this I may gently> blame them.
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> Still I have a favor to ask of them. When my sons are grown up, I > would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you > trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about > riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to > be something when they are really nothing, - then reprove them, as > I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought > to care, and thinking that they are something when they are really > nothing. And if you do this, I and my sons will have received > justice at your hands.>
> The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to > die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.**
_With apologies to classicists: the Jowett translation might do insult to the Greek, but it’s the first version I fell in love with. _17 Likes
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September 26, 2019
INTERVIEW WITH PROF. CASS SUNSTEIN ON 'LAPIDATIONS' AND ONLINEOUTRAGE
Caylan Ford
September 26, 2019
","url":"https://soundcloud.com/caylan-ford/prof-cass-sunstein-lapidation-and-cancel-culture/s-ZnMKS","width":500,"height":500,"providerName":"SoundCloud","thumbnailUrl":"https://soundcloud.com/images/fb_placeholder.png","resolvedBy":"embedly"}" data-block-type="32" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1569537680745_33027"> " data-provider-name="SoundCloud" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1623027363184_223"> I had the pleasure of connecting with Prof. Cass Sunstein recently to discuss online outrage, public shaming, group polarization, and the associated challenges for deliberative democracy. Prof. Sunstein is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioural Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University Law School. He is an expert in administrative law, and was previously responsible for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama White House. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is _Conformity: The Power of Social Influences_.
This is a pretty wide-ranging interview, and it begins with a description of what Prof. Sunstein calls “lapidations”: public stonings in the digital age. This phenomenon is familiar to any keen observer of the culture, but our language has not quite caught up. I’ll borrow liberally from his definition:
> Groups of people, outraged by some real or imagined transgression, > often respond in a way that is wildly disproportionate to the > occasion, thus ruining the transgressor’s day, month, year, or> life.
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> In the most extreme situations, lapidation is based on a lie, a > mistake, or a misunderstanding. People are lapidated even though > they did nothing wrong. They might have made some kind of > misstatement and so have been misinterpreted by reasonable > listeners. Even so, they did not intend to say what they were heard> to say.
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> In less extreme cases, the transgression is real, and lapidators > have a legitimate concern. They are right to complain and to > emphasize that people have been saddened, hurt, or wronged. The > problem is that they lose a sense of proportion. They want heads to > roll. Someone makes a mistake, or a foolish or offensive comment, > and lapidators come out in force, often in a state of frenzy. > Usually they are led by lapidation entrepreneurs, who have their own > agenda. They might be concerned with self-promotion. They might be > concerned with promoting a cause or with defeating an opponent, for > whom the lapidation victim is taken to stand, or can be made to > stand. Lapidation entrepreneurs may unleash something> horrific.
For the targets of these online struggle sessions, the experience can be psychologically shattering (here I speak from experience). Public
shamings are often accompanied by calls for a person to be stripped of their livelihood or public platform. And because the Internet preserves a permanent record of their public annihilation, they could be rendered unemployable far into the future. Their friends and colleagues may abandon them out of fear or self-preservation. Suicidal ideation is frighteningly common. So why do people participate in the public destruction of others? We addressed a number of possibilities in this interview. One obvious answer is that the performance of outrage allows participants to signal their own virtues and tribal identity. It may also provide an outlet: for people who feel helpless or disenfranchised, it can serve as an ersatz (and ultimately unfulfilling) form of politicalparticipation.
Sometimes the outraged are acting on a genuine belief that their political or ideological opponents really are evil or morally abhorrent. Where this is the case, they may convince themselves that any means—no matter how dishonest or cruel—are justified to attack and degrade them. Some ‘lapidation entrepreneurs’ have other, unrelated motives: they may instrumentalize public outrage to achieve a personal objective, to promote themselves, or to settle scores. Another possibility is that lapidations are a way to enforce social norms. This is nothing new: every human society employs shame and stigma to signal limits on appropriate speech and conduct. One critical difference is that our modern public shamings are not always used to uphold inherited norms and prejudices, but to create new ones (based, perhaps, on mere abstractions). Small groups of people may treat newly emerged or contested taboos as though they are settled wisdom. And, having skipped over the persuasion stage, they move straight to coercive enforcement. In some cases, it is unclear whether the new values can be justified. Lapidations exert a chilling effect on open inquiry, as even good faith dialogue can result in the ruination of a person’s career and reputation. When the critical examination of certain propositions is considered off limits, and when our public institutions are beholden to the loudest and angriest voices on the Internet, our capacity for deliberative democracy is at risk.3 Likes
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July 2, 2019
INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LAWTON: OUTRAGE CULTURE AND THE DEATH OFDISCOURSE
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July 2, 2019
Andrew Lawton is a fantastic interviewer. Here I speak with him (very briefly!) about my plans to pursue legal action against Press Progress and the NDP. But mostly we talk about our censorious outrage culture, its chilling effect on free expression and open inquiry, and the consequent harm to human relations. \n","url":"https://youtu.be/-AgPLEqE5Mg","width":854,"height":480,"providerName":"YouTube","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-AgPLEqE5Mg/hqdefault.jpg","resolvedBy":"youtube"}" data-block-type="32" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1562089307320_14714"> " data-provider-name="YouTube" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1623027363184_264">0 Likes
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June 6, 2019
ON WRITING "LETTER FROM MASANJIA"Caylan Ford
June 6, 2019
Last week, Leon Lee and I won a Leo Award for screenwriting on our documentary _Letter from Masanjia_. I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, but have been so heartened to see the continuing success of the film. One day, when circumstances permit, I hope that the China-based crew is able to share in the recognition for theproject.
I began work on _Letter from Masanjia_ about three years ago, when I first pitched director Leon Lee on the idea of a film about China’s notorious Masanjia reeducation-through-labour camp. Over the years I had interviewed a number of refugees who experienced torture at Masanjia, and read the testimonies and accounts of dozens more. The initial idea was to conduct on-camera interviews with as many former Masanjia inmates and guards as could be found living abroad, and piece together the history of the camp through their testimonies. In the mean time, we set about trying to locate the former inmate who smuggled SOS notes out of the camp, setting off a chain of events that culminated with the abolition of the reeducation-through-laboursystem.
Finding Sun Yi wasn’t easy. He was interviewed by CNN and the New York Times in 2013, but he’d concealed his identity. By the time I approached Leon about this project, he had already been looking for Sun Yi for a couple years without success. There were probably no more than a half dozen people in the world who knew his real identity or where to find him. But we did, and the rest was history. The expansive narrative I initially set out to tell about Masanjia couldn’t compare to the story and the character of this one, remarkable man.3 Likes
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April 8, 2019
WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION COMES TO NORTH AMERICACaylan Ford
April 8, 2019
“China did not become a tyranny overnight. Too many people in my father’s generation chose not to stand up for their neighbors, friends and even family members when they were under attack. They learned to obey instead of challenge, to pick sides rather than think for themselves. They assented to obvious lies because they didn’t want the mob to turn on them next. Such practical-minded decisions to place reputation and safety above truth allowed evil to accumulate. Personal compliance became collective complicity, and China was lost to totalitarianism. Don’t let it happen here.”Source:
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April 6, 2019
INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLE SMITH ON CQHR 770Caylan Ford
April 6, 2019
I was very grateful to Danielle Smith for having me on her program recently to explain why I made the decision to resign as the UCP candidate in Calgary-Mountain View, to answer some of the charges against me, and to call for a renewed commitment to good faith dialogue in an increasingly polarized political culture. \n","url":"https://youtu.be/jCNDUoPcbTk","resolvedBy":"youtube","floatDir":null,"thumbnail_width":480,"authorName":"Caylan Ford","version":"1.0","title":"Caylan Ford joins Danielle Smith in studio","resolved":true,"type":"video","thumbnail_height":360,"providerName":"YouTube","description":"Uploadedby Caylan Ford on
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April 6, 2019
PODCAST: WHEN THE MOB COMES FOR YOUCaylan Ford
April 6, 2019
“What tactics are acceptable in a political campaign? Are some things out of bounds? When politics become ‘total war,’ whatdamage is done?”
These are among the questions I discussed recently with Joel Crichton, an Edmonton-based psychotherapist and curator of the Windward Psychological podcast. It’s a lengthy, deeply personal, and sometimes esoteric discussion. But may be of interest to anyone hoping to understand the comments that precipitated my resignation as an MLA candidate, and more importantly, what my story might tell us about our current politicalclimate.
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April 6, 2019
APOLOGIA
Caylan Ford
April 6, 2019
Until three weeks ago, I was a conservative political candidate running for a seat in the provincial legislature in Alberta, Canada. I had spent nearly nine months campaigning, winning a contested nomination and meeting thousands of voters. My campaign brochures referenced the need for intellectual humility, a sense of gratitude, a commitment to truth, and the importance of nuanced and thoughtful dialogue across partisan lines. It was a bit unconventional, but the message resonated with voters who were exhausted by divisive and simplistic partisan rhetoric. With the election less than a month away, our internal polling showed a clear path to victory. We had a phenomenal campaign team, motivated volunteers, and we had out-fundraised the other parties by massive margins. Then, less than 24 hours before the the formal 28-day campaign period began, an NDP-affiliated organization _PressProgress _published an article accusing me of sympathizing with white supremacists.44 Likes
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April 2, 2019
CALGARY HERALD: FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, TO FILM, TO POLITICS, CAYLAN FORD IS A FORCE OF NATURECaylan Ford
April 2, 2019
Last October I was fortunate to be profiled in the _Calgary Herald_ during my nomination run for the United Conservative Party. There is something oddly prescient about this article, particularly this bit: > And now Ford is embarking on a new challenge as she’s running for > the United Conservative Party nomination in Calgary-Mountain View>
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> Why is she choosing politics?>
> Ford recognizes that “most normal, sane people wouldn’t do> it.”
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> “What kind of person wants to run for office, where everything > that they say and do is scrutinized in the worst possible way?” > she says. “There are so many assumptions of bad faith.>
> “To have your views wilfully misstated and misconstrued, it would > be infuriating. But then if good, normal, decent people don’t step > forward, then you are just ceding that ground to those who seek > power for its own sake.”Source:
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