There is little doubt that the budget will zero in on solving the historic fiscal imbalance with the provinces, with many experts predicting that Ontario and Quebec — vote-rich provinces expected to be key battlegrounds in the next election — will be getting millions more from the federal equalization program.
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From Dictionary.com:
1. Well known or important in history.
From Wikitionary:
1. having importance or significance in history
For what its worth, I think that a sentence reading something like the following would be pretty close to accurate.
“Voters in suburban Ontario and Quebec can expect to see their votes bought with an historically large cheque”
Coming soon: Where I chide the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (and to a certain extent conventional wisdom) for, shock of shocks, a limited historical perspective.
Fellow Travellers 
March 18th, 2007 
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