Ottawa: Westerners need not apply

The nasty little truth about Canada and why the West should separate.

The ritual media evisceration of Conservative leader Stephen Harper began last week after the polls showed that disclosures of rampant Liberal graft, collusion and party pilfering of government money had failed to significantly diminish public support for the Liberals.

The frequently but undependably supportive National Post, after enumerating Harper's awesome inventory of accomplishments – united the country's right-wing parties into a solidified body, developed a comprehensive, formidable and intelligent policy platform, ended chronic feuding in the caucus, paid off the party's debts and reduced the supposedly unassailable Liberal government to minority status after less than six months as party leader – decided that this wasn't enough. Harper had a flaw. He was "glum." He wasn't cheerful enough.

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Harper's most crucial deficiency has nothing to do with his being glum and will not be cured by any number of backyard barbecues. It consists in one crucially decisive fact. He does not come from Quebec. That the prime minister of Canada must come from that province has become the unvariable rule of Canadian politics – unvariable and unmentionable.

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