Unity train stuck in the station

What is Canada? Is it a partnership of two founding nations? Is it a community of communities? According to Gordon Wilson, a member of the B.C. legislature and leader of the Progressive Democratic Alliance, Canada is a... train station. >> He's serious. "Imagine yourself on the platform in a train station," Wilson told the Mirror. "There's a separatist train on one side and a federalist train on the other. The separatist train is moving, it's starting to head out of the station. The federalist train isn't moving--it hasn't moved for 30 years. Meanwhile, you just want to get the hell out of the station and it doesn't look like the federalist train will ever get you anywhere. So that separatist train starts to look really tempting." >> Wilson, the former B.C. Liberal leader best known for his well-publicized tryst with his then-parliamentary secretary Judy Tyabji in 1992, toured Quebec last week. And he's probably the most eloquent spokesman in the country when it comes to explaining B.C.'s seemingly anti-Quebec public sentiment. "When British Columbians hear 'two nations,' they hear 'Ontario and Quebec.' Two nations doesn't include us. British Columbians aren't mad at Quebec, they're mad at Ottawa." --Philip Preville