Whither Socialism?

Here's a good read in the Houston Chronicle concerning the impending disaster in Canadian politics. In brief, those people in Quebec have once again started to raise their whiny, nasal-toned, psuedo-French voices in something resembling a cross between Revolutionary rhetoric and a metaphysical discussion in an opium den.

The Canadian Liberal Party is doing themselves no favors by trading political capital with these whack-job secessionists, and it's starting to generate very dangerous fallout among what remains of Canadian Parliamentary solidarity. What was once the principled (if somewhat daft) Opposition has become the Government, and the results are appallingly predictable. Even if the Liberals are forced back into Opposition seats in a near-future election, the damage has been done. Things are looking grim, eh?

I say we snap up British Columbia and Alberta at the first possible opportunity. I'm sure their citizens would be delighted to live in a functional economy once again.