Mr K.:"Can anyone give me an example of where and when any announcement of funding for a project such as the ROF has been included in an annual budget before? I think not, and agree that it should not."

I think the St. Lawence Seaway qualifies.

Agree to almost all things in your post.

Particularly...

"The federal budget, as well as the provincial one is a yearly event, meant to itemize expenditures for the whole country/prov, and will be designed to produce as many accolades as possible while doling out our tax dollars."

McG will duke it out for those accolades and will use the Fed budget to garner northern "investment " leadership in the minds of the TO/S.Ont. voter-sheep. Watch McG plaigarize the Quebec North plan on the backs of private sector mineral resources tax increases and the demands for more $ from feds for his new "have not status".

Peter