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While majority attention remains on a city hall confrontation between Toronto Mayor Rod Ford and his council executives, Canada’s premiers are anticipated to convene at a hotel in another part of city’s business district to discuss their fall priorities. Anticipated to be on top of the Premiers’ agenda is the federal government’s proposed job training plan, since majority premiers still oppose the plan as they are concerned it tends to lose their control and funding necessary to support their economic policies.
Chair of the meeting, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, is expected to answer several serious questions from reporters focusing on the recent developments in Toronto Mayor Rob Ford fiesta and any part, if, the province plans to take to support the motions from the city council to limit his powers. On the other hand, Premier Pauline Marois’s Quebec government is anticipated to eagerly demand new policies to improve safety of the transportation of dangerous goods in the wake of last summer’s deadly runaway train disaster in Lac-Megantic. Apart from that, Alberta Premier Alison Redford is most likely to highlight issues concerning her government as it faces a steep decline in foreign investment in Canada’s resource-based industries such as the oilsands.
Fall meeting of premiers is indeed the second largest gathering of the year, after a summer retreat hosted last July in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Among the attendants, four provincial premiers from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador will not be present in person but have still vowed to participate by phone.
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