[EPenguin10]

That's a huge blow to their lineup. For the Ladies, that's pretty much the equivalent of Jim Cuddy or Greg Keelor leaving Blue Rodeo. Page and Ed Robertson have been the two main songwriters since they started. And Page is the better songwriter in my opinion.

Their record label doesn't fully agree:

"If you really (examine) the last six, seven years of the Barenaked Ladies, it's very much an Ed and Steve collaboration, but Ed's written probably 90 per cent of the singles," McBride said. "He's really been, in the last decade, the driving creative force behind the band."

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2009/02/26/8546966-cp.html