Madam Speaker, Ottawa is always trying to centralize powers.
Canada is increasingly evolving into a unitary state. It is trying to infringe on jurisdictions that are often not its own.
In this instance, we are told that the government is going to move forward but only on the condition that all kinds of programs and supports are created that allow it to encroach on Quebec's jurisdictions. By adding conditions to the funding, the government is condemning Quebec, which has been engaged in state building since the 1960s, to once again becoming a province like any other that is permanently obsessed with funding its health care system. Quebec will be forced to abandon all of its other efforts.
It is becoming more difficult to build our nation state as the home of the Quebec nation because the province is being fiscally starved.