[s1artibartfast]

There is room for two failures. The province should have enforced the provincial law, and the feds should not have have taken action through the banking sector.

[nazcan]

But this leads to the question if the province is not doing it's job, what do you do as the feds?

Not saying they did right, but curious.

[s1artibartfast]

My preference would be that the fed enforce the laws on the books themselves (if they have the power to do so), or pressure the province to do so (using the democratic leverage available).

[amrocha]

They tried that for weeks and it didn’t work. So what did you want them to do.

[s1artibartfast]

Are there no federal police or laws that are applicable? Is there no federal funding that goes to the province that can be used as leverage?

Those would be my starting place.

[amrocha]

There’s no federal police, the government can make their resources available but it’s up to the province to use them or not. And sure, you could use funding, but there’s no guarantee that that would have solved the problem. The province could have kept digging their heels in.

[s1artibartfast]

Arent there 30,000 Mounties capable of enforcing the law?

[parineum]

> what do you do as the feds?

I don't know exactly how Federalism works in Canada but the answer is their jobs. If that doesn't entail stepping in to provincial business, they shouldn't do anything.

There doesn't always have to be something done.

[amrocha]

This is very easy to say as someone who wasn’t affected by the situation. Most people supported the federal governments decision.

[beached_whale]

Provinces are absolutely responsible, policing is all on them.