FLAHERTY PLOTS HARPER OVERTHROW ? BOMBSHELL EXCLUSIVE: Bourque has learned that longtime Ontario Cabinet Minister and two-time provincial leadership contender Jim Flaherty may well be positioning himself for an early opportunity to unseat Stephen Harper, the disappointing Conservative Party incumbent, increasingly seen as a lame duck leader who's political capital may well have expired with his botched handling of recent national antagonism towards the long-governing Liberals. Sources tell Bourque that failed retail heiress Nicky Eaton hosted a swish gathering at her country estate in Caledon for Flaherty's intimates to discuss a bid for Harper's job. Present and accounted for included Tony Clement, recently disclosed as a recipient of Liberal CabMin Belinda Stronach's largess, and our old friend Tom Long, the Gaspesian Undertaker and defrocked Tory "strategist". As for Mulroney Senate appointee Consiglio DiNino, he tells Bourque in a fiery email late this afternoon that "I know nothing about the alleged gathering hosted by Nicky Eaton and was not in attendance at any such event." It is , however, understood that close supporters of Deputy Conservative Leader Peter MacKay, New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord, and former CA leader Stockwell Day may also be quietly testing the leadership waters. Developing ...