EYRE: No more ‘cat’s paw’ for Alberta — Ottawa’s war on energy created the independence movement it fears

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Western Standard

Permission to invoke an Aesopian fable to draw a parallel in Canadian politics? Thank you. In the fable The Monkey and the Cat, Bertrand the monkey persuades Raton the cat to retrieve chestnuts roasting in fireplace embers, promising him a share. Raton plucks them from the fire, one by one, but repeatedly burns his paw, as Bertrand gobbles up all the chestnuts.