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Jason Kenney is undermining the federal government every chance he gets.

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.
Kenney is challenging the federal government in multiple purview situations.

Carbon levy, fossil fuel approval, firewall & now public health care as mandated by Health Act & constitution.

He is petulantly taunting the federal govt and actively looking for a fight.
Seems Health Canada is up to the challenge to a tango, though.

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…
Fentanyl & Meth are both established substance abuse epidemics in Canada.
Kenney is really trying hard to be a pain in the federal government’s behind.

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.
Kenney is creating animus and hostility amongst Dominionist Christians and paleolibertarians (his primary support base) who are the ones objecting to the premise that substance abusers lives are as valuable as those who aren’t addicted.
This support base believes it’s a moral choice and/or a weakness of character. Anything less than prosecuting substance abusers for drug & nuisance crimes and maybe informing them of treatment facilities they enter at their own expense, is seen as costing society too much.
Yes, this means delisting substance abuse treatment is a possibility and probably being considered by UCP. Maybe even under conscience rights.

Imagine medical personnel refusing to treat addicts in distress. That would be a disaster. Thousands would die. But that’s the point.
These are “ends justify the means” people.

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.
They also believe mental illness is a choice. If one is obedient and follows the commandments of god & bible, they think mental illness is not possible.

That’s why the mentally ill are shunned. Dominionists believe it’s the devil or rejection of god creating mental “illness.”
That’s their mindset.

Couple that with the effort to remove the federal government’s purview. And you can see why I’m labeling this as paleolibertarian beliefs and values as well.
Paleolibertarians have no use for a centralized government at the federal level except to facilitate trade and to defend the various districts of the nation state.

That’s what Kenney is doing. Antagonizing the federal government to take Alberta to court and enforce purview.
He could use this in a number of ways.

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.
He can cry AB is a victim of federal authority overreach.

Or use it to offer a referendum to put up his proposed fire wall (CPP, cancel RCMP, collect taxes provincially).
Kenney is a radical revolutionary and is toeing the line of sedition.

Anarchy is the goal of all Canadian conservatives that hold Dominionist or paleolibertarian beliefs and values.

Kenney is trying to change the governance system in Canada.
And people thought I was hyperbolic when I said cons want to open the Canadian constitution.

I was dead serious.

The only way to change federal purview is through SCC decision or a call for a constitutional convention.
Why do you think removing Trudeau is the ONLY and primary goal?

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.
Wake up Canada. The threat to Canadian democracy is alive and well and being propagated by the far right. Also by the far left. But that’s another thread.
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