It was to be expected, Justin Trudeau wants to invade even more the areas of provincial jurisdiction. He has just made a (quasi-electoral) promise to spend a billion dollars over the next five years on a national school feeding program.
It acts as if provincial governments were wrongly choosing not to spend an additional billion dollars to help the 1.8 million children who do not have enough to eat in Canada. If the provinces do not do it even though it is their “job”, their area of jurisdiction will do it, because it knows where the priority needs are for Canada and for Canadians.
There is a lot of talk these days about the need to increase productivity in Canada. This need not only refers to private sector productivity, but also to public sector productivity. How do you expect our governments to be productive if they do not respect their areas of jurisdiction? Everyone has their responsibilities; everyone should define a program of services to be provided in their areas of responsibility and everyone should finance these services by raising taxes sufficient for the cost of the program they have chosen. “ No taxation without representation. »
We should not be surprised by the lack of effectiveness and efficiency of our governments, particularly at the federal level. Instead of invading the provinces’ areas of jurisdiction, Mr. Trudeau should seek to improve the performance of his government, first in his own area of jurisdiction. He must remember that his government has not even been able, for seven years, to properly pay its own employees. Yes, Phoenix still makes thousands of mistakes.
But the situation of having bad managers with good intentions could be worse. It would be that the invasion into the areas of provincial jurisdiction is motivated by electoral needs…
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