What the Harper Conservatives promised Saskatchewan: $800 million per year, every year, on the theory that it would result in fair treatment of the province's non-renewable resources.
What Murray Mandryk is now prepared to accept: a one-time partial share of two priorities in the range of $400-500 million, on the theory that we'd might as well get something out of our Con MPs after four years of utter uselessness.
What the Harper Conservatives are actually prepared to offer Saskatchewan: a commemorative Saskatchewan Roughriders loonie, on the theory that the province's collective awareness and activism can be summed up in the phrase, "Ooh, shiny thing!"
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