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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
The problem with that strategy, even though I agree with you in principle, is that most people work in provincially regulated industries so it’s a challenge to grow your support by campaigning on being pro-worker at the federal level because you can’t actually implement legislation that benefits the majority of workers.
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That's fair, for things like minimum wage and union type questions.
But the Federal government has control of lots of things that affect the number and quality of jobs. Eg: trade policy, environmental policy, fiscal policy, many types of regulations.
And there's plenty of carrot/stick options. Eg. Zoning isn't federal at all (in fact its usually municipal) but the Feds dangled $$ to get all the big cities to change. And health is provincial but if a province doesn't follow their rules you lose health transfers for billions.
Could make training/education transfers contingent on a provinces minimum wage/working conditiion rules meeting or exceeding the Federal standard.