Play with Fire

Michael Ignatieff in his reckless desparation to lead the Liberal Party of Canada into the next election, having opened pandoras box and alowing the imps of constitutional destruction loose on Canada again has sequenced an unprecedented, unstoppable chain of events. The Liberals having given the Bloq Quebecois the tinder and magnifying glass to cause a fire of historic preportions, Gilles Duceppe exstatic with a federal opening to smack his lips, salivating at what would follow out of his motion for Canada to recognize Quebec as a nation outside that of Canada. The NDP puffed up with their usual delusion of victory over the other two federalist parties claim that the recognition of Quebec as a nation has long been one of their staunchest party planks. Painted into a corner by the opposition parties the Prime Minister had no choise but to agree to the recognition of Quebecois as a sociological nation not independant to, but remaining within a united independent free Canada. The legal and constitutional ramifications of the statement having null implications for future rangling of reopening the unity debate. http://tinyurl.com/yb8zzg Once again our version of the Grecian Hydra rears its hideous villainous head railing for new and terrible battles on the horizon. It never seizes to astonish me how we can lurch from one constitutional crisis to the next never learning from past lessons, that if we continue to play with fire in the end we will all get burnt!