taxes to inflation. As for taking responsibility, there isn't a provincial problem that Alison Redford or Pauline Marois is not happy to lay at Ottawa's door. And with their recent report on guaranteed increases to federal health spending, otherwise known as "cuts" in the language of the premiers, all of their colleagues continue to demonstrate far too great a willingness to stay on that particular bandwagon. Rather than grandstanding with public invitations, the premiers should just take the advice of a previous prime minister. If they want to know what Prime Minister Harper plans to do on the economy, they should actually watch him. Better still, if they want a nationally co-ordinated economic strategy, they might consider emulating him. Charles Cirtwill is president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, an independent economic and social policy think tank based in Atlantic Canada.