One year in, the Liberals have turned a surplus into a deep deficit (a government operating deficit no less) - and, like their Ontario counterparts, are eying Canadian assets just ready to rush them to the nearest pawn shop.

You can only go to a pawn shop so many times before you're beaten on the head by the three golden balls above the door.

Thank goodness that highways are under the control of the provincial governments, or else the federal Liberals would be pawning them as well.