look we're the US from 4 years ago! So here's the thing. The "serious crimes" he mentions are file sharing and smoking pot which land a minimum 5 year sentence while rape still only gets you 6 months. But as long as the "real criminals" are in jail... Loading comments... He wants the provinces to be so burdened by his unilateral decisions and costs that they have to cut healthcare or privatize it. Its part of his hidden agenda. Saddle them up with burdens they legally cannot get out of or so he thinks. Loading comments... Prime Minister Harper, you do not govern in a vacuum. Everything you do on the Federal Level has effects on the Provincial Level. Your continues disdain for the Canadian People will not be forgotten. You have you majority now, and can rule by fiat, but when the next election comes around, enough moderate and liberal citizens will come out and toss you to the curb. You are dooming your party to Obsolescence. Loading comments... Harper once described Canada as a "failed Northern European welfare state." He still thinks that way and he is intent on reshaping Canada into his own rather horrible image. Canadians voted for this man but, given the vagaries of the Canadian electoral system, it is hardly accurate to say that he has a "mandate" to do anything. Most Canadians actually don't want him as PM. As for Flaherty, the story of the European debt crisis is the story of some