To what purpose?
To change the system of government in Canada of course.
That’s ALWAYS been the Conservative agenda. Weaken the federal government and give more power to provinces.
Battle over jurisdiction.
Are these muddy waters?
Healthcare delivery is prov purview.
But Federal purview retains the mandate to coordinate and directly fund public health epidemics.
loc.gov/law/help/healt…
He’s provoking a response to then play victim.
I’m not sure if people understand the cumulative rationale behind all the challenges to purview and jurisdiction.
Imagine medical personnel refusing to treat addicts in distress. That would be a disaster. Thousands would die. But that’s the point.
They believe in punishment for the abuse, not support. And if that means the addict’s untimely death, then so be it.
The Dominionists and many paleolibertarians believe that’s god’s will, & society should not intervene in god’s will.
That’s why the mentally ill are shunned. Dominionists believe it’s the devil or rejection of god creating mental “illness.”
That’s what Kenney is doing. Antagonizing the federal government to take Alberta to court and enforce purview.
It certainly fans the flames of wexit (Kenney is no federalist).
He can cry foul and use any court proceedings to build national support for provincial purview rights. That’s what cons mean by unity.
Or use it to offer a referendum to put up his proposed fire wall (CPP, cancel RCMP, collect taxes provincially).
I was dead serious.
The only way to change federal purview is through SCC decision or a call for a constitutional convention.
Because to make changes to the constitution requires the approval of the PM, the HOC, the senate and 7 out of 10 provincial governments.
They need PM to be from CPC to change the constitution.