Best Friends .... a marriage made in *&^@

For months prior to the election, Lorne Calvert and the NDP government fought with Stephen Harper over the equalization payments. Throughout the entire battle, Brad Wall and his Sask Party accused Calvert of either not doing enough or being unrealistic in the battle.

So here we are, three weeks into a new government and after many months of the equalization fight and we are now hearing that with Brad Wall's "contacts" in Ottawa, he and his Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, Bill Boyd, will develop a more "conciliatory relationship with Stephen Harper and the Federal Conservatives.

The writing is in the WALL for this one!!!!!

Harper had refused to budge on equalization when Calvert was in government. Now that he has an allie with a right-wing Provincial Government, the best way to counteract public opinion of the Dirty Dozen here in Saskatchewan, is to make a deal with Brad Wall on the formula.

What a better opportunity for Stephen Harper to gain points than to settle the equalization formula and give Saskatchewan the money we are entitled too. What a better opportunity for Premier Wall to come out and say that Calvert took the wrong the approach and that the new Sask Party Government was able to reach a settlement.

When two people get married, the bank account usually increases. It will be interesting to see how much Ottawa will now act in it's new found relationship with Saskatchewan now that it has a government married to it's National ideals.

My money says Harper will want to "buy" into Saskatchewan's government sooner than later, a way to bolster not only his own defective Dirty Dozen but a way to make Premier Wall look rosy before he cuts our public services. Follow the lay out as it unfolds...Premier Wall sworn in, Wall claims cupboard is bare, new relationship with Ottawa....next step is not hard to see!