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When you have a problem and a solution,” the barber said, “you don’t have a problem anymore.”

KINSELLA: Danielle Smith started a fire and Alberta -- and Canada -- will suffer for it Back to video

“When you have a problem and no solution” — and here he shrugged — “you have a way of life.”

The barber worked not far from the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa, and spent many years offering wisdom to MPs and senators. And he was right, of course.

His aphorism applies, these days, to Alberta’s erstwhile premier, Danielle Smith. Smith has a big problem, one entirely of her own making. To mix metaphors, Smith has let loose a rabid dog in her own backyard — presumably to keep Ottawa at bay.

But now the rabid dog is biting her.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda. If Smith had any political smarts at all, she would have said no to the separatists in her own UCP caucus, and she would have never agreed to embrace separatism. She would have never allowed a referendum on Alberta separation to happen. She would have done what Peter Lougheed and Ralph Klein and Jason........

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