Purposeful Ramblings Through My Mind

I'm not entirely sure. Maybe that it wasn't going to get any better by waiting, and bringing them down on the budget was a smart move? They almost got the support of the NDP, which is certainly an odd-couple kind of thing, by throwing several bones their way in the budget, but obviously it wasn't enough at the end of the day for the NDP to prop up the government - the political cost of that would be huge for them.