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    Thursday, January 18


    It has long been known that the marriage of convenience between the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper and the Hon. Peter MacKay is tempestuous at best - not that it hasn't worked out for them of course. Harper is now the Prime Minister and MacKay is a prominent minister who has a better shot at being Prime Minister than he did when he was leader of the fifth party in the house.

    Today MacKay came out and announced that the government was not about to include natural resource revenues in equalization calculations. He said "That's completely false. There's always rumours and particularly pre-budget discussions and a flurry of activity around what may or may not come." The rumours to the contrary were very strong but it is entirely possible that either the government never planned to go down that road or was planning on it but backed off thanks to opposition in Newfoundland, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

    In any case, come the federal budget, we will see if MacKay is right or is so far removed from the centre of government and the PMO that he wasn't even told, let alone consulted, on breaking an election promise.

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