From left to right, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford during a photo opportunity at the Council of the Federation meetings in Halifax on Monday, July 15, 2024.
Canada's 13 premiers sat shoulder-to-shoulder Wednesday to both call on the federal government for help and to tell it to step away from their jurisdiction.From left to right, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford attend a photo opportunity at the Council of the Federation meetings in Halifax on Monday, July 15, 2024.
As the meetings wrapped up Wednesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford took aim at the federal government's billion-dollar national school food program, which promises to deliver meals to an additional 400,000 children per year."Something's broken. They're wasting taxpayers money," he said during the premiers' closing news conference.
But the premiers aren't asking for Ottawa to back off entirely. They floated several areas where they want to see the federal government play a bigger role, including infrastructure spending, Arctic security and immigration supports. "We have the housing needs, the health-care and social needs in Manitoba, and so we really do need the federal government, who has the fiscal resources to be able to move the needle here, to do so," he said.
Kinew urged Trudeau to reach that target in four years to alleviate concerns south of the border ahead of a presidential election that could return former president Donald Trump to the White House.
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