Pyromania

From Roy MacGregor’s report in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, the nefarious mainland newspaper which the Premier doesn’t care what it has to say about him or the province or his government:

With Flaherty’s budget “kindling” the fires of separation, Williams’s cabinet is soon to meet over whether to proceed with a March 31 celebration to mark the 60 years since Newfoundland joined Confederation.

“Here we are coming up to that anniversary,” Williams says, “and here’s what Ottawa has done to us. We have to really, really be careful with that. I don’t want that to become a focal point for separation, because that’s not what it was intended to be.”

The nefarious mainland journalists haven’t yet caught on yet to the cardinal rule: whenever ODP says of something that nothing could be further from the truth, it’s probably the truth.

For a guy who doesn’t want thing to become focal points for separation, ODP has a funny way of achieving that goal. Whether it’s ripping one flag down while fantasizing about running another, politically-charged, flag up, to the endless comparisons to Iceland and Ireland (shades of the Quebec nationalist fixation with Catalonia), to sharing a bilingual French-English thesaurus with those in Quebec who are separatist and not shy about expressing it, almost every step of the past five years has been made with a view towards ratcheting up the non-separatist fever which he professes not to suffer from.

Sometimes it’s a firefighter who turns out to be the arsonist.