When I came across a picture of Quebec's Bonnehomme de Neige (Carnaval) and the Calgary Stampeders in today's National Post, I wondered what it was that they had in common, and then it became all too clear. "Quebec is looking for another Sugar Daddy to give them free hand-outs".

Alberta has its OIL SANDS, which means MONEY, and Quebec is obviously looking to get some of it. It seems that Quebec is using Aesop's Fable about the CROW and the FOX, to wheedle some of those Albertan PIASTRES (money). Remember how the FOX flattered the CROW and got the CROW to sing, causing it to drop the cheese from its mouth and the FOX then grabbed it and gobbled it up?

Alberta unfortunately does not have any cheese nor does have a big dairy industry to give Quebec. (Quebec already has them in abundance anyway). All Alberta has, and lots of it too, is money from its oil industry. Quebec, using the Aesop's Fable, appears to think that by praising Alberta it can wheedle some money out of it.

Michel Kelly-Gagnon, President of the Montreal Economic Institute is under the impression that Alberta will swallow the overtures being made by his group. Hopefully, Albertans are NOT so stupid as to give away their hard-earned money to the wastrels who gambled away the economic edge they had before 1967, by running Quebec into the ground with their pipe dreams.

Kenneth T. Tellis