Mr. Speaker, this week the prime minister will be meeting with the premiers to talk about social programs.
When these social programs like medicare were introduced years ago Ottawa paid a large portion of the bills, and that was how Ottawa was able to spend its way into areas of responsibility that belonged to the provinces like health care and education. Today Ottawa still wants to control the programs but it has cut the transfers to pay for them.
Why does the federal government think that the premiers will allow it to micro manage social programs after having gutted the transfers to the provinces?