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Colby Cosh: The Easterners who admit Alberta separatists have a point

Even the Globe and Mail has come around to criticizing the Laurentian oppressor

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In Monday’s edition of the inferior national newspaper, John Ibbitson defends the thesis that “Central Canadian elites are as much to blame for Alberta’s separatist movement as anyone else.” It wouldn’t be tactically smart for an Albertan to go after Ibbitson for the way he goes about this, but I have to admit I had the exact same reaction as I did in that Simpsons episode where Bart cruelly catfishes his teacher, Mrs. Krabappel. When he sees her weeping in a restaurant, utterly undone by his prank, he utters the immortal line “I can’t help but feel partly responsible.”

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It’s not quite clear whether Ibbitson regards himself as speaking for the Central Canadian elites, or whether he sits aside, at a desk of the Globe and Mail, castigating them from below. And, of course, you never get far criticizing an “elite,” because nobody........

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