Responsibilities: Federal Budget

Stephen Harper Dept: The leaders of Canada s two most populous provinces say they fear more responsibilities will be downloaded to the provinces in the federal budget later this month, according to The Chronicle Herald. "When you download responsibilities or costs from one level of government to the next, taxpayers simply pay the same costs to a different government," he said. "In the end, no one wins." TORONTO Prime Minister Stephen Harper s cash-strapped government will try to balance its books on the back of the provinces, the premiers of Ontario and Quebec said Monday. The same thing happened in the 1990s under former prime minister Jean Chretien s Liberal government, but it s "nothing but a shell game," said Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.