“What the premiers are saying is let’s deal with the funding situation first”, he said Friday before heading into the meeting. CFIB director Vaughn Hammond says studies need to be done, and government needs to tell Canadians the details.
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Canada’s premiers pose for a photo during a meeting in Whitehorse on Thursday.
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“Yukon and the other two territories as well as other provinces have exemptions in place”.
British Columbia’s Christy Clark says the premiers haven’t uncorked sales entirely, but says they’re a little bit freer.
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he’s most concerned about consistent enforcement across Canada when it comes to marijuana use.
“It’s one of the issues I want to raise today”, he said.
“In the end, we want to see an agreement come forward”, he said in advance of the meeting.
The conversation revolved around the need for provinces to work “collaboratively and intentionally” in disaster mitigation, but Notley said fires like the beast that ravaged northern Alberta also need to inform climate change initiatives – both in their prevention and reducing the negative climate consequences of such massive fires.
Earlier in the day, Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec agreed to allow online purchases of wine from each other’s provinces.
Clark has said such a deal is close.
The Council of the Federation started back in 2003 as a way for the provinces and territories to form a united front and create stronger ties with one another and with the federal government.
Speaking in Gatineau, Que., Trudeau cited recent negotiations on the Canada Pension Plan as a sign that provinces can work together.
“We are totally opposed to targeted funding”, he said. “If their priorities are long-term care and seniors care, that will be the priority of nearly every province and territory”.
Wynne and Clark expressed confidence a new Canada Pension Plan deal will be ratified, but probably not at the Whitehorse meetings.
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Premier Dwight Ball of Newfoundland and Labrador said his cash-strapped province faces a spike in medical costs as the population ages.
