Via Civitatensis, the Ottawa Citizen’s David Warren has it exactly right when he explains what’s wrong with Ontario:

I am speaking to you from a province that truly doesn’t get it. We don’t get that you’ve had enough. We don’t get the degree to which you are tired, not only of the corruption, but of the sheer malice of the Liberal Party. They are getting about equally tired in the West. And according to the polls, we, in Ontario, have decided the Liberal Party must stay, for reasons of “national unity”. In other words, the Liberals have become the separatist party of Ontario.

In other words, the Liberals have set things up with Ontario, so the only way to shake them off is by leaving the country. Canada’s most talented people do that every day; now it becomes the turn of the provinces.

As you perhaps noticed, my analogy was incomplete. Ontario is in some sort of weird old Mormon or Arabian marriage, in which there are several wives. Were it not for the oil dowry that came with Alberta, we would have trouble paying for them all. That Alberta also, increasingly, wants out of the marriage should be no surprise to either of us: there is nothing in it for them, whatever. We just take their money, they get nothing in return, unless you count spousal abuse. The Liberals and our “national” (i.e. the Toronto) media dump all over Alberta. They use the word “Canadian” specifically to exclude them.

Read Warren’s entire editorial.

Then read the commentary at Civitatensis.

Then read thepolitic.com.