left-hand right-hand communications failures

In the innertubes-only ur-comment section the Globe reserves for the interesting articles it can’t fit onto its real comment page, Ken Boessenkool debunks the nasty, silly idea that Ontario is a drag on the national economy. In fact, growth rates in Ontario have moved closer to the national average in recent years; “Ontario is doing just fine in absolute terms;” “is it really such a bad thing that Ontario is stable”?; Ontario “is, in absolute terms, no worse off”; there is nothing in the recent TD report to “justify the banner headlines suggesting Ontario was somehow in a sorry state”; “Ontario is doing absolutely fine.”