There is a genuinely unreal feeling in the air when Canadians talk about owning the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is as if all our troubles will vanish if only the nice people (and their leader Rufus Ewing) will just say yes. Common sense departs on a Caribbean breeze. There’s not a serious thought among the twittering tweets tonight. It’s all just “yes sirree Bob, let me at that Canadian tropical beach”. Never a word about the incredible canyon between the cultures of Toronto and Grand Turk or the lop-sided economic advantage offered to the Turks and Caicos by being part of Canada. CPP does not stand for cinnamon and pear pie. Nor a thought as to whether dominantly European-extracted Canadian millions really want to become the inevitable big brothers to 35,000 people of the Turks and Caicos. Is there a potential for unfulfilled expectations? Would this be an arrangement that would prompt the ever watchful “rapporteurs” of the United Nations to tell the world that Canadians were behaving a lot like imperialists? Would it make the people of the Turks and Caicos feel like colonials? Would there be plenty of people to tell them that they were colonials? Sorry to raise these little matters during your reverie in the sun.