If Wall represents the voice of sanity in Canadian politics, God help us all. His hero must be Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned to the ground. Wall spent the province’s money like a spendthrift child in the good times, but the waste and mismanagement caught up with him as he didn’t plan for tomorrows’ inevitable collapse of the oil and potash windfall. He now sulks, blames others and plays the victim — rather than rolling up his sleeves to deal with the consequences of his own failings.