With regard to a political crisis, I imagine you're alluding to the fact that the government is in the minority position in Parliament.
At any event, I don't think that provincial MLAs naturally have better or worse solutions than federal MPs. That's really not the case. It's just a question of subsidiarity. This crisis clearly called for management that was as close to the ground as possible. Even in the provinces, it would have been better at times to have management that was closer to the ground and provided primarily by physicians, healthcare staff, local governments and, obviously, the provinces.
On the whole, I would point out that federal authorities weren't powerless when they discovered that there was a financial need and that a measure like the Canada emergency response benefit, the CERB, would be useful. With their enormous spending power, they could have carried out their policy. They didn't need the Emergencies Act or the exorbitant regime under which we suspended normal federalism, rights and freedoms and so on in a quest for exceptional means. The means at the federal government's disposal were already equal to the task of carrying out that policy. I don't think we would have produced vaccines any sooner if we had used the Emergencies Act.