Cons buy off Socialists?

Has Harper bought Layton with a billion dollars plan to help the unemployed in NDP ridings?  Shame, shame.

It is odd, however, that Harper would even offer the bribe.  Only a few months ago the Cons were saying the cost to bring equity to the EI program by eliminating the 58 EI qualification regions would cost a billion dollars and they could not afford it.  Shame, shame.