Another inquiry isn't going to do anything.

I do not have it in for relativism. In many respects I find it a fascinating, even attractive, alternative. It engenders epistemological humility, defeats an arrogant pomposity in belief, even promotes a sort of democratic ideal in matters of knowledge. Perhaps its most comforting feature is that it requires no hard work at all in the matter of justifying beliefs.

Clearly the GST windfall is going to be considerable and I think the Prime Minister's option of doing nothing no longer exists,

Freedom of inquiry and of expression are what universities are all about, and freedom of speech is a cornerstone of our democracy.

I think that is what the department's inquiry would look at, among other things.

[Using the] wow ... Kay said that his 'model' for the inquiry would be the special commission named by President Reagan to investigate the January 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger shortly after it was launched.