Rafe Mair's Sky is Falling

The Tyee is consistently interesting, insightful, and careful to look to isses that don't always dominate the national agenda. It's there that you can read about the decline of the Salmon fishery off of BC's coast, and their book on the ills of the Cambell government from a few years ago was solid reading.

So, it is more than a bit upsetting that Rafe Mair's column descends into the usual end-is-nigh craziness that I like talking about so much. It's even worse that it just doesn't make any sense.

In Quotes:

The opening line:

The Liberals take credit for national unity. It never seems to occur to them that the disunity of this country can be laid at their doorstep.

Not 6 sentences later:

Though I hate to say it, I must, through clenched teeth, acknowledge that Pierre Trudeau was the only Canadian leader to understand what could and what could not be conceded to Quebec in order to (in the best meaning of the word) appease them.

There is some blaming of PET for not having Quebec on the constitutional ship in 1982, followed immediately by a tacit admission that Levesque's claims didn't make a whole lot of sense, and that Mulroney went and made the issue a whole lot worse (I'd say that he created it, but we'll play nice).

So, here's the question: Can anyone else find where the Liberals have caused the nation's disunity? Shouldn't, as written, this be a warning against more mulroney-esque constitutional meddling?