Gimbol's diatribe and screed

The moments

The liberal and conservative moments of the week came at once.

Its a liberal moment in that even being faced with the reality they still think Canadians will buy it just because its liberals saying it.
Its also a cosnervative moment due to how it points out that obvious fact.

But in the next federal election campaign, which could come as early as next spring,
all of this will change. The voters in this province will look at whoever is leading the Liberal party and ask: Who is this person?
And if that person is someone committed to putting this country through more years of constitutional turmoil just to deal with Quebec, they will shake their heads in disbelief and begin to think that maybe, just maybe, they should cast their ballots for some other party.

In other words, this plan means Quebec is special, the rest of Canada is not.

I've got an idea. If the next liberal leader wants to really float this lead ballon but not look like a patsy for the fair weather federalists in Quebec, offer instead to rejig the constitution to remove all references to provinces and replace it with nations.
After all why would the party of the charter be infavour of creating lesser citizens by virtue of which province you lived in. That would be discimination.

posted by gimbol @ 4:48 AM