With or without you

The Western Star editorialist joins in the fustigation:

In the meantime, if Ottawa knuckles under like it usually does and kowtows to our sister province, then so be it.

The Lower Churchill project will go ahead on its own merits with or without Ottawa’s help.

No problem, then. In other words, the imaginary Lower Churchill project will go ahead just as Fearless Leader imagined it would four years ago.

On our own. Go it alone. Masters of the Universe (on a go-forward basis).

All the while, we'll demand the cash and security, from Ottawa, to go it alone with.

(To say nothing of spending five years, going it alone back and forth to Montreal, pleading with Quebec to go it alone together.)

But sure, there probably still is an on our own go it alone masters of the universe on a go-forward basis scenario still open to build the Lower Churchill project, even without pawning off the costs and risks to some poor sucker stupid enough to cough up the billions.

It's almost entirely irrelevant that such a scenario involves a unicorn race to the end of the rainbow to get to the pot of gold before the leprechaun does.