....and then a step to the right

If I remember the song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, you take a step to the left, then a step to the right. You put your hands on your hips and in Saskatchewan, you pucker up tight.....

Brad Wall has just brought onto his staff, Iain Harry, who is not only a close personal friend of Wall's (what's that smell? oh ya patronage) but he worked in communications and research for the Conservative government and most recently headed an infrastructure group under Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon that reported to the PMO on how to strategically spend infrastructure money.

Much to the denial of a media spokesperson; the attachment to the order-in-council making the appointment said Harry would serve as deputy minister of intergovernmental affairs. This is the department that handles the equalization file.

Add to that; the fact that former Progressive Conservative party leader Bill Boyd was named Intergovernmental Affairs Minister because of connections to the federal Conservative government, and his statement that "the strong relationships that exist between members of the provincial and national governments may help Saskatchewan get a new deal from Ottawa."

So with the fight for equalization now in the hands of the Sask Party, Wall's new goal of a "concilliaTORY relationship with Harper" and friends from the Federal Conservatives running to Brad Wall's office for employment, my previous guess at the way the equalization is gong to be dealt with may not be that far off after all.

One really has to wonder exactly what the next step to the dance will be.