You need a safety net. There has to be a safety net. You cannot have a free-for-all of a country, where some provinces don't do the right thing—whether it's on vaccination, on shutdowns or on the size of public gatherings—and expect good outcomes.
If every province is making it up on their own, you're never going to get 10 out of 10 doing it right—never. You need minimum national standards, including for vaccination, as Ms. O'Connell averred briefly. That is something the federal government can do with its emergency powers constitutionally. There is precedent.
I'll give you the names of some federal acts that set minimum legal standards across the board. For the environment, it's the Canadian Environmental Protection Act; for medical care, it's the Canada Health Act; and for privacy, it's the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. They're all federal legislation and they all set minimum standards.
Why can't we have minimum standards for disease control in the biggest crisis this country has faced in a century?