Jihad on the Lake

John Ibbitson writes this morning in the G&M (subscription required):

There's help for farmers, help for the textile industry, help for geologists, help for the very poor, help for the disabled, help for immigrants ? help for any citizen who might otherwise be tempted to vote for the NDP. The overall political strategy appears to be to do nothing actively to anger the West, pour billions into Quebec and Atlantic Canada, bolster support among the poor and minorities, and hope that the middle class, especially in Ontario, is happy enough with the economic good times not to notice.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty should be waving the budget papers in the legislature and declaring a jihad on Ottawa.

This is quite the revolutionary rhetoric. He goes on to end his piece in saying:

But one of these years, the people who produce, as opposed to those who mostly consume, are going to say, "Enough."

Who might these people who consume be Mr. Ibbitson? Can you name a few? You will need to promise the young "producers" some kind of heaven with scores of virgins awaiting to make your jihad work. The problem is, they are mostly pacifists.

Ibbitson has been among the first to say that Albertans are radicals. Some Chuzpah!