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In the upcoming annual meeting of Council of the Federation, all provincial leaders are expected to convene and deliberate on issues including infrastructure strategy, reforming or abolishing the Senate, elevation of the Canada Pension Plan and renovation of Ottawa’s proposed jobs grant program, which are all issues that majorly require attention and cooperation of the federal government, however Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not scheduled to attend the meeting with the premiers collectively.
The annual Council of the Federation meeting to be held at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., will include all 13 provincial and territorial premiers of Canada, who will assemble to discuss Canada-European Union free-trade negotiations, cyberbullying laws and health-care reform, along with many other issues that require complete help from the federal government in order to either set policy or deliver funding. Keeping in mind, that since the federal government has a pivotal and direct role in majority of the issues to be discussed at the premiers’ conference, several political observers have voiced their opinions demanding Harper to avoid first ministers’ meetings, as they claim it would only allow the provincial leaders to gang-up on the federal government with limited political benefit for Harper.
The vice-president of public affairs at Summa Strategies and former director of communications to Harper while he was in opposition, Jim Armour, mentioned in a statement that “they do tend to become a bit of a political show. . . . People use the platform for some sort of grandstanding for the voters at home.” He added that “I don’t think you’re going to see a first ministers’ meeting anytime soon.”
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