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Back in 2006, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty began his first budget speech by reflecting on how “budgets say something about your motivations and your goals.” Having spoken that truism, Flaherty launched straight into announcing “tax relief people can see,” meaning mainly, of course, the first of the Tories’ two one-point cuts to the GST. Motivation and goal: lay the populist groundwork for turning Stephen Harper’s minority into a majority.