I have repeatedly written about "extreme federalism" as a possible solution to, or outcome result of, the extreme polarization of US politics. I viewed it as an better alternative to civil war.
Comes a columnist who sees something similar-but-different happening in Canada. He views the provinces becoming increasingly autonomous because Ottawa permits it, and/or doesn't deal with the problems they face.
It could be that Ottawa finds it too difficult to craft national policies which fit the 10 provinces' divergent cultures and needs. Maybe one size cannot fit all, at least not comfortably.
If you like Canada enough to have visited it repeatedly, I recommend the article. See its conclusion.
Canada is not disintegrating. It is unraveling. But the effect is the same. The provinces are no longer listening for the center. And the center is no longer capable of drawing them back. Yeats’s line still holds: the falcon cannot hear the falconer. Not because of rebellion. But because the call has grown too faint to matter.
Personal note ... Alberta feels more like Texas or Montana than it does eastern Canada. They share rodeos, cattle, oil, pickups, vast flatlands and a pioneer past.
