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Today's fiscal snapshot is not going to put a price tag on the sort of "unprecedented" fiscal stimulus that Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned may be necessary after a global economic summit last week. And it will not contain major measures to jump-start the economy. The Tories say they're postponing these until the 2009 budget, a document often released in late February.

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