@acoyne has suggested using the Federal power of disallowance if the provinces - looking at you Alberta - get too uppity. "Anti-consitutionalism" or some such nonsense. 1/
The problem, which Coyne fails to recognize, is that the Trudeau regime, elected by 32% of the voters, has rendered itself irrelevant to, if not actively hostile towards, a huge number of regionally concentrated Canadians. 2/
The regime's agenda of climate change, DEI, mass immigration, mandated jabs, internet censorship and brutally ignorant "gun" control may focus group well in the bits of Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver the Libs need but not in the rest of the country. 3/
Out in the hinterland inflation, gas prices, housing costs, accessible healthcare, economic growth, immigration geared to actual capacity, matter a great deal more than the gender balance in Cabinet. 4/
Coyne likes to talk about the "orders of gov't" as if this is important to the state of the nation. It isn't. The fact is that Canada was and is a federation and, well, Coyne's beloved feds got a limited set of powers. 5/
The fact the provinces got most of the powers important to people's daily lives has stuck in the federalist craw since PET's day. How can the enlighten feds "do what's right" in the face of bonehead Premiers? 6/
Were Coyne a better "constitutionalist" he would be praising the provinces push back against the feds attempts to broaden their powers. (He'd also support the provinces in taking the Charter seriously.) But Coyne isn't and so sees any prov push back as a threat. 7/
And it is a bit of a threat. If the federal government through its priorities renders itself irrelevant or obnoxious to Canadians the political power of the provinces will grow. It is the great tension of Canadian politics. 8/
For the Coynes of this world, people who shuttle between Ottawa and Toronto, while Quebec has a special right to challenge the constitutional order, the other provinces should understand themselves subordinate to Ottawa. 9/
Which is why Coyne is keen on disallowance, the other nuclear weapon in the federal arsenal. Rather than sitting down and talking to Smith and Moe, Coyne would prefer the Trudeau regime to "show them who's boss". 10/
Kinda like how the Emergencies Act was more important as a show of strength than as an actual, functional, instrument. Shows of this sort seem to excite @acoyne and his confreres in legacy media. But, in fact, they show the essential weakness of the regime. 11/
If there is weakness in Ottawa, and there is, independent centers of political power spring up. Quebec, always. Alberta often. Sask and Manitoba, that's a bit unusual. The chat about a Spring election reflects the slippage of central power. 12/
Trudeau, if he confines his campaigning to back yards and secure facilities, may have one more minority in him. The urban dimwits and suburban Karens want a "progressive, climate concerned, inclusive" gov't, the rest of us want a gov't that works. 13/
@PierrePoilievre and the @CPC_HQ are going to have to figure out, quickly, where they stand on this. "Me tooing" on climate change and mass immigration leaves a gapping hole for Max and the #PPC to run the ball. Get off the fence Pierre. 14/14
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