Just a guess on why Harper wants the Alberta NDP in the conversation. Mulcair is riding their wave still and drawing comparisions between the federal and provincial cousins. I'm guessing that closer to the election date if the NDP still haven't produced a budget that there will then be speculation about just how big the deficit will be. The Tories will then have free reign to speculate at how badly Alberta's budget will look and the only way the NDP can stop it is to address the issue, which they would rather avoid. Just a theory but I think there is an end game coming on that.
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