{"id":13488,"date":"2012-02-10T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13488"},"modified":"2012-02-10T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:30:54","slug":"lorne-gunter-toronto-star-imagines-oil-just-bubbles-up-out-of-the-ground-and-we-westerners-just-run-out-with-buckets-to-collect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/lorne-gunter-toronto-star-imagines-oil-just-bubbles-up-out-of-the-ground-and-we-westerners-just-run-out-with-buckets-to-collect-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorne Gunter: Toronto Star<\/em> imagines oil just “bubbles up out of the ground and we Westerners just run out with buckets to collect it?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lorne Gunter<\/a> in the National Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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As I read the Toronto Star<\/em>\u2019s editorial about Statistics Canada\u2019s recently released 2011 census population data, it was hard for me not to imagine a plump, aging diva reclining on a brocade-covered chaise wailing, \u201cI\u2019m still beautiful! Really, I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entitled, \u201cCensus shows a fading Ontario? Don\u2019t count on it,\u201d the editorial makes the argument that it is \u201ctoo simplistic\u201d to claim \u201cOntario\u2019s day is over.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one is making the case that Ontario can be dismissed as an afterthought. That is a concern without a cause.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

But before anyone jumps to the conclusion that I, an Albertan, am pleased by Ontario\u2019s decline, I\u2019ll add that any trend that bodes ill for Ontario, eventually bodes ill for the country as a whole.<\/p>\n

Canada needs a strong, prosperous, confident heartland. The West may be the new engine of the national economy, but that doesn\u2019t mean the country can afford to have the old engine — Ontario — be idle.<\/p>\n

The Star<\/em> insults the West\u2019s ingenuity and determination when it scoffs that \u201cit\u2019s relatively easy to grow based on resource extraction. Ontario does not have the luxury of sitting on gas and oil fields, so the task here is much harder.\u201d Really? Have the paper\u2019s editorial writers ever tried to find, extract, transport and refine oil and natural gas? Do they imagine the stuff bubbles up out of the ground and we Westerners just run out with buckets to collect it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lorne Gunter in the National Post: As I read the Toronto Star\u2019s editorial about Statistics Canada\u2019s recently released 2011 census population data, it was hard for me not to imagine a plump, aging diva reclining on a brocade-covered chaise wailing, \u201cI\u2019m still beautiful! Really, I am.\u201d Entitled, \u201cCensus shows a fading Ontario? Don\u2019t count on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,28],"tags":[542,95,213,616,87,290],"class_list":["post-13488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-media","tag-alberta","tag-jobs","tag-newspapers","tag-oilsands","tag-ontario","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3vy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13490,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions\/13490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}