Finally, an explanation.

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I have been shaking my head in wonder at the behaviour of the federal government recently -- constantly attacking Ontario's recently-reelected-with-a-majority government, whining about their choices in the budget, etc -- and I really couldn't figure it out. Most blog posts seemed to indicate similar questions, usually along the lines of "What's Harper's game?"

Sadly, the game is just that he's a child, says Paul Wells. This makes a lot more sense than thinking he's out to govern Ontario by press conference, I think.

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It's so transparent, too. If Harper had his cabinet members walk into *any* other province to say these sort of things, they'd be run out of town and the papers (especially in Alberta) would tear him up! Of course, he clearly doesn't have the guts since the other provinces will get him his majority if he can manage to keep them.

Plus, he's a huge "provincial jurisdiction" person. If Chretien or Martin had pulled this stunt, he'd be threatening to sue the Liberal Party (oops, too late on that one) within hours.

*sigh* I'm glad we don't have enough serious problems for the Prime Minister to work on. Imagine if he was actually busy?