bounds of prudent environmental review and safety precautions, to move expeditiously with resource-based exploration and development. These changes have not been undertaken in secret. The prime minister has campaigned on this agenda (or something close to it) in four general elections, plus his own original MP byelection. Indeed, before entering elected service, he had spent much of his adult life making the philosophical and evidentiary case for just such an agenda. For that matter, I suspect that even before I cited them, anyone reading this piece and likely most of the people they know could have listed these examples of Canada's economic action plan in action. Certainly, Tom Mulcair, the leader of the Opposition, knows them well and has been aggressively attacking each and every one of them. It strikes me that only the premiers seem not to know what Canada's economic action plan is. I reach that conclusion not only from their most recent words, but from their ongoing deeds. Between Christy Clark's "fair share" and David Alward's "buy New Brunswick" strategies, it becomes clear that free trade is not a provincial option. The size of government in just about every province is growing, not shrinking. On the tax front, Dexter has taken a page from Harper's handbook, offering to cut the HST/GST by a point or two if re-elected to office next time. But other provincial taxes are and will remain high, and Nova Scotia has yet to live up to a long-standing promise to at least index