Cosh on Buzz on Alberta Separatists
January 19, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
Unlike Quebeckers, who dream poetically of unmaking Confederation but perhaps recognize the impracticality of the final step, we are people who want to stay put but realize that all the logic and incentives are increasingly on the other side. We grow frustrated when we seek for the exact moment that our individualist, democratic, pro-enterprise principles became un-Canadian.
The isue with Quebec separatists has always been framed wrongly. Given the inherent racism of the language laws, the tenacious hold on Code Napolean legal philosophy, and so on, the question should never be “should they be allowed to separate.”. The question, always, should be: “Should they be allowed to stay in Confederation. In other words, maybe _we_ should pull the plug on them, or at least start to–which would clerly indicate (because, as he writer sugested, the ‘last step” is impractical for Quebec speparatists) who actually holds the best cards.
As to the other point, aren’t “individualist” and “democratic” kinda at loggerheads when the rubber meets the road?
Finally some recognition for the west.
Can you believe the meltdown of the Liberal Party? It could get much worse for Martin according to this link.
Martin’s Resignation Prediction
[...] Tom Cerber links to Colby Cosh on Buzz’s comments re Alberta: “Stephen Harper’s recent career has been, among other things, a desperate act of faith in national politics on behalf of Albertans. The Buzz Hargroves of the world have spawned an incalculable amount of pub-stool separatism here. It would be the work of an afternoon to find ten men with eight- and nine-figure fortunes who were willing to back an earnest separatist movement with a dynamic leader.” [...]