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Originally Posted by Fuzz
That's why it's such a frustrating conversation. They've been shown to not be successful, which is why no one lives like this.
And it wasn't a generic freekin' link, man. It's a clear explanation of the separations of responsibilities and powers, and if you understand reality, would be able to comprehend why it is the way it is with this document in hand. My example may have been extreme(I'm not sure how you read it as a rant, unless you don't know what the word means), but it's good of you to acknowledge that a breach is bad, and then maybe you'd understand how what you want would also lead to breaching, but the very nature of the ask. "We would like to be able to write our own rules" is kinda pointless if those rules are constrained in the same way as they are now, meaning they already have the power to do what you want. That you want MORE just proves my BC example is perfectly relevant as a possible direction without constraints.
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I never doubted the feds authority of the health act or that they provide health funding. I do not understand what you think I was supposed to learn from that.
Don't get me wrong, I'd scrap the health act if I could as well. But that's not what I was talking about at all. Feds do healthcare transfers and the other major transfers to ensure the poorer provinces get more funding. That is the purpose of them, its a wealth transfer. The top 1/3 of provinces would actively be better off if the transfers were cut to zero. It is not the purpose of these federal transfers to strong arm provinces to follow new federal policies. That has been what its turned into. Federal politicians are encroaching on what is clearly provincial jurisdiction in order to push their policies. That is what I disagree with, that is what the referendum question refers too.
It's to get ahead and negate that top down decision making. If the feds want to blow billions on some new initiative that is provincial jurisdiction. Remove the ability for them to restrict funding if a province does not agree with it. That is a very simple request imo. Should have been in the constitution originally. We signed a bad day care deal that doesn't fit Alberta. The housing and infrastructure funds are huge wastes of money that could have been better spent in a hundred different ways and there was huge variances in regional spending. Trudeau strong arming provinces into spending the healthcare money based on federal demands is outrageous.