1. How is it that Stephen Harper has gotten away with signing a shady new security perimeter deal with the US without consulting Canadians or Parliament?

2. Why is the federal government refusing to disclose the cost estimates of its multibillion-dollar corporate tax cuts and prison expansions? In the House this week, Liberal MP and Finance Critic Scott Brison rose on a question of privilege to demand the details and stated that "withholding this information impedes Parliament's ability to fulfill its duty to scrutinize the estimates, and that is a breach of the House's privilege".

Could it be that the Harper government has no idea how much the prison expansion will cost? In April last year, the government's original estimate to implement the 'Truth in Sentencing' Act was revised from $90 million to $2 billion. The independent parliamentary budget officer, Kevin Page, has since estimated that the Sentencing Act will cost between $7 billion and $10 billion over the next five years as prison populations explode and new prisons are required.

For all the noise the Tories have made about the Long Gun Registry, could it be that Harper is creating another bloated government program, this one even nastier and more expensive than the registry?

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