On deadlines

I'm sure neither level of government will be rushing to make a public show of it given that the public is thoroughly outraged over the HST. But the agreement signed by Deficit Jim Flaherty and his B.C. counterpart in red ink Colin Hansen establishes today as the date by which British Columbia and the federal government were supposed to sign a final HST implementation agreement - so it'll be worth seeing whether either of them is willing to own up to having signed such an agreement, not to mention what it might include. (And that goes doubly given some of the unanswered questions about Ontario's deal which I'll discuss shortly.)