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Ottawa - There was no disguising Jack Layton's glee Thursday as the NDP leader used his flirtation with left-wing Liberal stalwart Sheila Copps to tweak Prime Minister Paul Martin as too conservative for much of his own party. "You have somebody more conservative than (Tory) Brian Mulroney leading the Liberal party, it shouldn't even be allowed to be called the Liberal party any more," said Layton. Copps, a former Liberal cabinet minister and two-time federal leadership contender, spoke Wednesday with Layton and later refused to rule out the possibility of switching to the New Democrats. Montreal - Canadian astronauts could have a seat on manned space flights to the moon and Mars if U.S. President George W. Bush's vision for space becomes a reality, the head of the Canadian Space Agency said Thursday. But Marc Garneau, Canada's first man in space two decades ago, said Canadian astronauts won't likely join the historic mission without billions of dollars from the federal government. Ottawa - It didn't take long for the new era in federal-provincial relations to stumble into the same pothole that was the scourge of prime ministers long before Martin. The problem, in a word, is money. The provinces need it to run hospitals, they want it now, and they accuse the federal government of hoarding it by lowballing estimates of the federal budget surplus.
