Posted AT 7:18 AM EDT on 02/05/08
Ontario's plight is too important to ignore
Ontario premiers have moaned for quite a while about their province being fleeced within Canada. Nobody, including most Ontarians, paid any attention.
NDP premier Bob Rae in the early 1990s governed through a bad recession and nagged Ottawa constantly about Ontario's problems. All Ontario wanted, he claimed, was a "fair deal."
Mike Harris, a Conservative, picked up the same refrain. He was always grousing about poor treatment from Liberal governments in Ottawa.
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