‘Stop trying to do my job,’ says Alberta premier after announcing plan to block federal funding

My message to Ottawa is that federal politicians, and the Prime Minister in particular, should do his job and stop trying to do my job. That that’s that’s what the message is. And I don’t know if Premier Higgs would would said the same thing. But when we meet as premiers, the really interesting thing is it doesn’t matter whether it’s NDP or Liberal or Progressive Conservative or UCP or Saskatchewan Party, we all come from different parties and different perspectives, but we are united in that. That the federal government should stay focused on the things which they need to do. There’s lots of things they need to do. They need to shore up National Defense so that we’re not an international embarrassment. They they need to make sure that our foreign policy is aligned with our allies instead of our enemies. They need to make sure. That they’re expanding international trade so every single one of our 10 provinces and territories can get our product to market. They need to. They need to build critical infrastructure like the Trans Mountain pipeline, which is going to be getting to the finish line. That is the kind of things that they should do more of. They should be building ports. To be building rail lines, they should be building highways. Stephen Gibot. They should be making sure that they are living up to their obligation and their treaties with First Nations. They should be funding healthcare on reserve, mental health and addiction treatment on reserve, water on reserve, building out economies on reserve. They should make sure that our the value of our dollar is not diminishing. Internationally. They should make sure that they can process passports efficiently. They should make sure that we that the Pearson airport is an is a lovely experience to go through and that all of our. Airports are operating efficiently. There is no shortage of things the federal that the Prime Minister can do. It’s not a boring job. So when you see in Alberta that we are going to take a posture more like Quebec, which is no thank you, we don’t need your policy advice on school lunch programs, on pharmacare, on dental care. That is just just give us the money and trust that we’ll be able to deliver on this. That’s the approach that we’re going to take and we’re going to be pretty vocal about doing so and I hope to see some of the other premiers do it.