Will PEI give up its four seats, will Quebec give up its special status, will Ontario stop thinking it is Canada? If we are to have real reform, reform that results in all Canadians being equal, having an equal say in their own life, all of those things must happen.

But when it comes to suggestions to reform Canada all I see are ideas to rearrange the deck chairs.

Lets get right down to it. Canada is growing, “the regions” are now Canada in a way that the province once called Canada never envisioned.

These Regions are populated with people who have a different history, different Culture and different ideas than those in the founding regions.

This is the problem, the “Founding Nations” idea. Written into our laws are the supremacy of those who were here first. Charter members are to be waited on, catered to, and paid handsomely for as long as the sun shines and the rivers flow.

Nice idea if you were here first but the majority of Canadians are (or will be) first and second generation. The wealthiest provinces are late comers. How long are they going to accept such a system?

Clearly not forever.

So reform is needed but reform without breaking the power early provinces have over newer ones, without breaking the power those of us with deep roots have over new Canadians, is not real reform. It is merely moving deck chairs, hoping we can put off the difficult decisions for yet another generation.

History has many lessons for those countries that work against the interest of the majority, particularly if that majority is also the wealthy majority. Those lessons are not pretty.

So the question is:

Will PEI give up it’s 4 seats? Will Quebec stop demanding all regions bow to them, use their language? Will the regions and provinces be allowed to follow their own vision of their future?

Or will Canada just keep rearranging the deck chairs until the majority of Canadians in “the regions” take what is rightfully theirs, control of their own future?