Premier Wab Kinew’s recent Facebook tribute to the late playwright Ian Ross was more revealing than he may have intended. In it, Kinew quoted Ross’s approximately decade-old nomination speech.

Ross mused that “the system” was like a tree with two kinds of people in the world. He remarked that:

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Some people are like woodpeckers, working to puncture “the system” from the outside. Even if it feels like they’re banging their head against a wall, these people are essential.

Other people are like termites. They work their way inside the tree, inside “the system,” where they chip away for years. Eventually, these people take “the system” down from the inside.

…I think Wab is a termite.

It was meant as insight, even affection. But termites don’t build; they consume for them

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