... but the Canada of reinvention and resourcefulness is gone.
Forget this "fair" society nonsense.
Canada wasn't founded on fairness.
It was founded on hard men willing to explore, to carve out the land, to build a civilised society, and to prove the world that she could do it.
The 21st century was poised to be the Canadian century, but through much fault of their own, Canadians squandered that opportunity, and today we bid farewell to a nation that had greatness within its grasp, but decided instead to become smaller, to become lesser, to marginalize itself and by extension, made the world a less wonderful place. ...
We must recommit to the feelings we had six months ago: Team Canada all the way. Premiers making unilateral decisions that have a direct and negative impact on our ability as a nation to build up our infrastructure, our economy, and indeed our society need to get with the program. If British Columbia owns the West Coast, then Saskatchewan owns its potash, uranium and the fields that feed the world. Alberta owns its oil and gas, Ontario owns the Ring of Fire. Everyone keeps their toys and we all lose.
The federal government recognizes that all things being equal, the economy suffers when government views itself as indispensable to the entrepreneurial class, and as a central player to solving every problem, including those of its own creation.
If you want a resource-rich country to work as one, get rid of the government that skims off of the top and makes its friends rich.
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