"Mr. Speaker, the long, tiring, unproductive era of bickering between the provincial and federal governments is over."

To be replaced by a prolonged period of shouting.

In fairness, provincial Premiers will never be satisfied with the federal government. Flaherty's failure to create a satisfactory solution to the fiscal imbalance shouldn't surprise anyone, since:

1. The fiscal imbalance doesn't exist; and
2. Premiers need the issue more than they need the money.

Flaherty's real offense was his smugness in making a claim that was so blatantly full of crap.