Posted AT 4:17 AM EDT on 28/03/08
Boy, it sure is tough being Ontario these days
Ontario premiers have harrumphed periodically about Ottawa since Oliver Mowat beat up on John A. Macdonald in the 1880s.
Ontarians reacted indifferently to these complaints. They kept voting for federal governments being attacked by the premiers, because, after all, Ontarians figured they ran both governments. Queen's Park was "their" government, but so was Ottawa.
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