This week’s Council of the Federation meetings featured more process than progress.
No one’s suggesting a good process isn’t fundamental to good politics. Premiers and their officials in Winnipeg talked and listened, networked and took briefings from stakeholders who came to town to lobby on health care, justice reforms, trade infrastructure and more.
But reporters scanning the premiers’ kitchen-sink communiques for tangible actions, decisions and fixes were hard-pressed to find a headline. And the meeting’s host, Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson, showed little ambition to use her time as chair to build a profile on the national stage for her leadership, or advance
