Still waiting to hear one compelling reason for Alberta and Saskatchewan to remain a part of a declining Canada.

The independence-minded in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec may actually be harbingers of a new global trend.

In January, UnHerd columnist Duncan Moench proposed that the US is well on its way to a break-up. According to Moench, the likelihood of US fragmentation becomes obvious to Americans when they recognize that "our governing institutions are too large, too centralized, and too culturally incoherent to sustain democratic legitimacy."

Large, centralized, one-size-fits-all government policies are frequently impractical, divisive, and democratically unacceptable in geographically, economically, and culturally diverse countries. Yet, powerful central governments with their Byzantine bureaucratic systems frequently draft legislation which is popular in a favoured region but inimical to the interests of people in other regions. 

I'm seeing independence petition signing places popping up all over the city.