Canada

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.

This made me puke in my mouth a little so for some levity:

Premiers telling Ottawa to bail their provinces out while simultaneously telling the feds to fuck off should be a heritage moment.

7 premiers are angry that Ottawa actually wants to help the everyday folk

When asked if the premiers are asking for too much from the federal government on too many items, Houston said they're asking the Liberals to refocus.

"We need to be focused on how and where that money is invested. We have a lot of ideas on that and we hope that they listen to us," he said.

So the spoiled whiny group of premiers want the feds to listen to them, but quid pro quo is off the table?

Riiight.

They can ask if to help in fields that are their jurisdiction while also telling them to fuck off when it's outside their jurisdiction.

Ex.: Border control and immigration is a federal power, if they let more people in and it puts a strain on the provinces then they should pay for it. Healthcare is a provincial power, if the federal government has money to spend in that field it means everyone is paying them too much taxes.

Sure they're forcing the provinces to do things that might be advantageous to the average Canadian, at the same time it's the average Canadian's responsibility to elect governments that will implement those things in their province instead of electing conservatives at the provincial level and progressives at the federal level.