A lot of good posts in the last few pages of this thread. My thanks seem to have run out
It really does appear that the Liberal leadership hopefuls are allowing this to happen because they have Dion to be the fall guy if anything fails. If it works out, they can reap the benefits, if the Conservatives produce effectively the same budget that the coalition has offered in principle, they can allow the coalition to fail and still blame all the problems on Dion and Harper.
I posed this question earlier, but no one seemed to bite. How will people react when the Conservatives essentially try to buy Quebec off with money in their upcoming budget? Will it be OK because it's now the blue party giving our money up?
From the beginning I supported the initial Conservative budget and I thought that any sort of bailout is premature. SebC has astutely put it best, that Alberta really doesn't have influence in any party.