I think you are getting at the tension between strong centralized control and the principle of subsidiarity, for example. We're in a federal state, so there is always going to be some work done at the national level in a coordinated way, like the PCF, the pan-Canadian framework. Sometimes the federal government will do its own thing and the provincial governments will do their own thing.
On a matter of national concern like this, the federal government chose to do a program that allows for provincial systems to be substituted for the federal one, which is called the “backstop”, if they meet a benchmark.
What we are saying is that if you're going to use that system, make sure that the benchmark is rigorous enough so that whatever systems are being approved at the provincial level to reflect their own regional needs are at least as effective as the federal backstop. That's the idea.