{"id":16230,"date":"2012-07-28T00:14:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T05:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16230"},"modified":"2012-07-27T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T03:00:38","slug":"premier-speak-for-dummies-that-is-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/28\/premier-speak-for-dummies-that-is-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier-speak for Dummies (that is, voters)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2012\/07\/27\/andrew-coyne-a-beginners-guide-to-understanding-premier-speak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Coyne<\/a> provides the beginnings of a Premierspeak-to-English dictionary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the premiers decry the absence of federal \u201cleadership,\u201d similarly, they do not mean they want the federal government to actually lead anything. They want it to follow: to do exactly as they say, notably in matters of funding. Some other terms in the provincial lexicon:<\/p>\n<p><em>Unilateralism<\/em>. \u201cWe are in a period of unilateralism on the federal government\u2019s part,\u201d Charest complained, citing the health care funding decision (in premierspeak: ultimatum). Ottawa is said to be acting \u201cunilaterally\u201d when it spends federal money as it pleases, that is without consulting the provinces. Provinces, on the other hand, insist on the right to spend federal money as they please. For example, when Charest took delivery of $700-million in federal funds offered up in the name of fixing the \u201cfiscal imbalance\u201d and used it instead to cut taxes, that was not unilateralism. See: federalism (profitable).<\/p>\n<p><em>Negotiations<\/em>. The federal government, says Ghiz, \u201cdid not want to sit down with the provinces to negotiate on health care.\u201d But what was there to negotiate? Negotiations imply a give and take; each side brings something to the table, and offers them in exchange. The provinces bring nothing to these \u201cnegotiations.\u201d They do not offer anything in exchange for more federal money. They simply demand it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Co-operative federalism<\/em>. When the feds agree to do as the provinces say (see: leadership), or more properly when the provinces agree to let them. Manitoba\u2019s Greg Selinger: \u201cWe remain very committed to the notion of co-operative federalism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Coyne provides the beginnings of a Premierspeak-to-English dictionary: When the premiers decry the absence of federal \u201cleadership,\u201d similarly, they do not mean they want the federal government to actually lead anything. They want it to follow: to do exactly as they say, notably in matters of funding. Some other terms in the provincial lexicon: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,53],"tags":[584,87,113,258],"class_list":["post-16230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-politics","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-ontario","tag-quebec","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4dM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16232,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16230\/revisions\/16232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}