You may be familiar with the incredible true story of a con man named Frank Abagnale. Between the ages of 15 and 21, Abagnale successfully passed himself off as a commercial airline pilot with Pan Am, a medical doctor, and a lawyer.

It’s easy to be hypocritical, and we’re all guilty of it sometimes. A little while ago, Florida’s Sun Sentineli examined the records of 3,915 officers who had traveled on toll roads in 2011.

It’s a challenging thing to create a new society. It does, of course, happen from time to time. One of the world’s newest nations at the present time is South Sudan, which declared independence in 2011. For this new nation, the last few years have been years of immense challenge – and its very survival has been in jeopardy.

When income tax was first introduced here in Canada in 1917, the new Income Tax Act ran just shy of 4000 words. It was a simple document outlining a simple law. Since then, the rules and regulations have ballooned to just over 1 million words.

The opening words of a nation’s founding document give you a clear sense of the tone and direction of that nation’s life. The Constitution of the United States famously – and very intentionally – begins with the words, ‘We the people…’ And without reading anything else in the document, one can tell that this will be a nation where the people rule supreme – this will be a land of democracy.