Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: If it’s that simple, why hasn’t anyone done it? Why, indeed, isn’t anyone likely to do so this time? I mentioned how the referendum in Alberta offers a rare window for reform. But there’s another political event looming this fall: An election in Quebec, the largest provincial recipient of equalization payments, with the possibility of a separatist government coming to power – and a referendum on secession to follow. That sound you hear is a window of opportunity slamming shut.
Albertans may detest equalization the most of any province’s citizens, but Quebeckers are perhaps the most attached to it. In politics, the status quo usually rules…