"Alberta is in danger of becoming the Don Cherry of Canadian politics."

Nothing quite like a good one-liner. Wisdom in a few words. And Graham Thomson, one of the better columnists writing about Alberta politics, started my day off with a beauty in a CBC column about the current Alberta-Quebec contretemps. The column was titled "Alberta Premier Jason Kenney might be bilingual but he needs to learn a new language" with a sub-head that asks the pertinent question "Canada and the world are changing. Can Alberta keep up with the conversation?"

And the one-liner: Alberta is in danger of becoming the Don Cherry of Canadian politics, unable to deal with change.

Comparing the province to the hockey guru whose bigotry finally caught up with him—a classic old white man who can't deal with the changing face of Canada—is as delicious as it is timely. Not that Alberta is bigoted—far from it—but its inability to deal with global warming represents the same kind of reactionary mindset as Cherry's. Unfortunately, its also far more problematic. You can't fire a province.