Every one of us can remember the friend we had as a kid who would scream and stomp his foot when his mother made his sandwich wrong or didn’t pack his lunch the way he wanted. Then there was the kid who cried when he lost a game or wasn’t picked for the school baseball team.

I guess we called them spoiled, but whatever we called them, every time I watch the Alberta separatists whine, I think of those kids in school.

I can remember my dad telling me from an early age that Alberta was burdened by “the Crow Rate,” and the unfair federal government that overcharged Alberta. The Crow Rate is long gone now.

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