Ontario Premier Doug Ford took aim at the federal government’s billion-dollar national school food program, which promises to deliver meals to an additional 400,000 children per year.

This made me puke in my mouth a little so for some levity:

Premiers telling Ottawa to bail their provinces out while simultaneously telling the feds to fuck off should be a heritage moment.

7 premiers are angry that Ottawa actually wants to help the everyday folk

When asked if the premiers are asking for too much from the federal government on too many items, Houston said they’re asking the Liberals to refocus.

“We need to be focused on how and where that money is invested. We have a lot of ideas on that and we hope that they listen to us,” he said.

So the spoiled whiny group of premiers want the feds to listen to them, but quid pro quo is off the table?

Riiight.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

During the three days the premiers met for the annual Council of the Federation conference in Halifax, they described tensions in their relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.

As the meetings wrapped up Wednesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford took aim at the federal government’s billion-dollar national school food program, which promises to deliver meals to an additional 400,000 children per year.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, the chair of this year’s conference, said Ottawa’s approach to the federation “risks pitting provinces and territories, really Canadians, against one another.”

They floated several areas where they want to see the federal government play a bigger role, including infrastructure spending, Arctic security and immigration supports.

After years of criticism from allies — most notably the United States — the Liberal government announced last week that it hopes to meet NATO’s military investment commitment of two per cent of alliance members’ gross domestic product by 2032.

Kinew urged Trudeau to reach that target in four years to alleviate concerns south of the border ahead of a presidential election that could return former president Donald Trump to the White House.

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They can ask if to help in fields that are their jurisdiction while also telling them to fuck off when it’s outside their jurisdiction.

Ex.: Border control and immigration is a federal power, if they let more people in and it puts a strain on the provinces then they should pay for it. Healthcare is a provincial power, if the federal government has money to spend in that field it means everyone is paying them too much taxes.

Sure they’re forcing the provinces to do things that might be advantageous to the average Canadian, at the same time it’s the average Canadian’s responsibility to elect governments that will implement those things in their province instead of electing conservatives at the provincial level and progressives at the federal level.