On our own

From today's laughable-if-it-weren't-so-dismal editorial in the Western Star:

It appears we have to make it on our own ...there won't be much coming form Ottawa to help us become a 'have' province.

What a stunning revelation! Shocking! Earth-shattering!

"Help form Ottawa" is not what makes "have" provinces "haves".

"Have" provinces are "haves" by "making it on their own", thereby no longer needing "help form Ottawa" to begin with — at least beside the kinds of "help form Ottawa" that all the provinces get.

Is this is what it has come to in Dannystan? That people honestly and truly think the road to self-sufficiency, or autonomy, or "have" status passes through "Ottawa"?