National Unity
I wrote this over at Alan’s:
As my old professor Keith Spicer memorably put it – “There is an anger in this land.”
After being fed the Liberal Party/National Media line that to co-operate with Quebec separatists was pretty much treasonous there is the Toronto Party, with the Annex Media, on its knees co-operating.
From a Western perspective this is Diefenbaker and the NEP rolled into one.
Rule from the Center, for Heavens sake Alan, name a really right wing thing Harper has done in office.
Frankly I hope the Coalition seizes power. It will demonstrate pretty much once and for all that much as the West “wants in” the East – or rather Toronto and enclaves – still believes it has a right to rule Canada (even when it doesn’t, you know, win very many seats. And the droit de seigneur exercised by the Bloc prior to the NDP/Toronto Party nuptials will put paid to the idea that the Liberal Party loves Canada more than power.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
My prediction is that a kick Quebec out movement will be born.
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
It’s been around a long time. It just hasn’t really had sufficient reason to find a voice.
That will change if this coup proceeds.
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Be practical. There would have to be an awful lot of money shovelled into Quebec, and a host of other political provocations, for Canada to kick out Quebec. (Of course the movement might be born, but it’ll likely be a smaller movement than the output of a constipated canary.)
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
...and remember the same notion that “Quebec didn’t come into Canada” with all its assets applies to “The West” that got it’s mineral rights by statute in the 19030s and not as an original constitutional fact. There will be as much a reckoning day were either stupidity ever come to pass.