gnu, as I said, problems come about when one province or region feels the need to complain that they have somehow carried more than their fair share of the burden for making this grand country work.

I did not say that I personally was in sympathy with that perception in any region that wants to play that card. I have no problem with the concept of sharing the wealth within a confederation and I am well aware that wealth has flowed historically in both directions in many guises.

What I do have a problem with is the belief that somehow the trickle down affect will solve all social ills, economic problems and disparities. Large corporations are paying less and less of the social costs in this country, with the overiding thought that their only responsibility in a civil society is to generate wealth for stockholders and with little concern for for paying their fair share to maintain the framework that makes this a civil society.

They have been given considerable assistance by all government levels, while provincial governments point the blame at other regions, rather than admitting corporate greed is a large factor, and laying the blame there, where it really belongs.

There is an opposite of this mindset and, as far as the pendulum swings one way, it will inevitably swing the other, with problems of equal magnitude. The hope is to maintain an equitable balance. IMO that balance is not particularly evident.