This post over at Stageleft should be getting more attention.
Canadians across this land are increasingly feeling unrepresented and powerless - and powerless to change that situation. There's good reason for this and it's not just about our cruddy electoral system, vicious attack ads, parliamentary pissing contests, elitist party financing, and so on.
More crucially than any of those, it's the assumption that, as Canada continued stretching its boundaries east, west and north to include hugely diverse regions whose very diversity partly stems from their geography, the federation could remotely (literally) fairly represent and serve the diverse interests of all the people who live within it.
Federations are fine for geographically similar or smaller countries. They don't work for countries as large as Canada.
Go read Stageleft. He states it better than I.
See also this post which Daphne and I wrote back in January, and this one written by James Bow.
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