Alberta is putting a question on the October 19 ballot about whether to start the legal process of leaving Canada. The Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition went out there this week and the strongest thing he could bring himself to say was that the people who want to break up the country “are not our enemies.” Carney called the referendum what it is — a dangerous bluff. Poilievre called it a feeling we should sit with. “We do not need a different country, Alberta. We need different government policies in Ottawa.” Read that again. The man who wants to run the place just told a secession movement their demand is basically fair, he’d only like to handle the paperwork himself.
This is the entire Poilievre move compressed into one speech: never be the guy who says no. Pipelines, repealing Bills C-69 and C-48, “different policies in Ottawa” — he...