Back to the 50s

It's a good thing, for Danny, that he caught himself on his own "baby bonus" reference today.

Smallwood held out the baby bonus as one step towards Confederation.

Danny holds out a baby bonus as one step towards... no, it can't be... can it?

Anyway, he defused the situation himself. (audio link)

The Smallwood analogy is lame now.

But the Duplessis-Quebec analogy is still fair game.

"We can't be a dying race"?

Shades of Lionel Groulx, Maurice Duplessis, and the rest.

"L'agriculture est la banque nationale, où notre race garde ce qu'elle a de plus cher, nos traditions," Duplessis said.

Lionel Groulx wrote "Birth of a Race" and "The Call of Race". And, for good measure, "Why We Are Divided".