Ontario's Tragic Irony

Nobody, including the Liberals, seem willing to engage in a serious discussion about the choices and trade-offs ahead, so the gas plants fill the void.

It's sad but true - when times are grim, when cooperation, a diversity of opinions and creative solutions are called for, people are more likely to be competitive and mistrusting of innovative ideas.  We ignore the solutions right in front of us. because we're afraid to appear "weak", IE don't have all the answers.

There are two ways out of this race-to-the-bottom; the easy one is that the system completely fails and gets rejected, leaving a period of disunity, stifled progress, violence, the re-establishment of social norms and eventually, a new system fed by the ashes of the old one.  That's the way it usually works.

The alternative requires leadership - not the kind we're used to where it's my-way-or-the-highway, but true leadership that people will have faith in.

The choice is ours; it always is.