A lot of posters have seen this as a good thing, sort of putting the provinces in their place, as the feds picking them off one by one. If you believe in a weakened federation and a strong centralized government totally in control, then these actions are for you. Quebec fought this years ago and threatened to leave for this and other reasons of course, and the feds capitulated by giving them special powers. This didn't go down well with the rest of the country , nor should it have. But now the Liberals are opening up old wounds in Quebec and making new ones in the rest of the country. It's as if Ottawa and the PMO are blind to what's happening around the world. In a country which has led a rather benign existence, you don't play provinces off against each other for political expediency, or at least you don't do it in a time when people are fed up with government's iron hand.