A Re-Confederation could solve many of this country's problems

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The premiers are conferencing this week in Ontario with a scheduled drop-in from the prime minister. Then there will be a news release hopefully reporting incremental progress of some kind — perhaps on trade barriers, infrastructure, more counter-tariffs, or whatever.  

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But suppose, just suppose, that at some future federal-provincial conference the assembled first ministers are forced to fry much bigger fish. Suppose they are forced  to consider major amendments to the constitution — maybe even re-drafting it — because some province, east or west, has actually obtained a “clear majority” in a referendum on a “clear question” to secede. 

I know, I know… such a situation is highly unlikely and it is considered unpatriotic to even raise it. But sometimes strange things happen — like a banker becoming prime minister of Canada or the Blue Jays attaining first place in the American League East — so please bear with me. And unpleasant as it may be to many of my generation to even contemplate the word “secede,” that is the word to be used for the sake of clarity if that is in fact exactly what its proponents mean and intend. 

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