FILE--Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses staff members and supporters at an event marking the first anniversary of his government being in power, in Ottawa Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007. Harper and Mario Dumont are undoubted soulmates when it comes to decentralizing Canada’s federation. But with Dumont now on the ascendancy in Quebec, will the two join forces to reduce the federal government to little more than a glorified automated banking machine? (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/Fred Chartrand)