Desiderantes Meliorem Patriam

Via RebelAlbertan, Link Byfield’s column from today’s Calgary Sun. It is based on the not-yet-published musings of Leon Craig, a political science Professor Emeritus from the University of Alberta. Here’s a taste of it, but read the whole column.

More importantly, we would create a country that reflects our own political and social beliefs, values and traditions, and our understanding of the common good.

Canada, says Craig, has been so badly governed since the Trudeau era, it has doomed itself to a Third World, banana republic fate.

We will become — are in fact becoming — the Argentina of the 21st century.

Political corruption gets rewarded instead of punished, productivity slides, and the opportunistic politics of envy becomes the basis of our whole system of national government.

The only promising place left in Canada, he concludes, is Alberta.

And Alberta owes it to itself, to its future citizens, and to like-minded people in the rest of the country to save itself.

Cross posted from Civitatensis.