It may seem like just another federal-provincial disagreement, another argument in a fractious country.
But there are very good reasons the premiers are united in opposing Stephen Harper's job training plan.
For not only were they not consulted. Not only is the Con regime clawing back money from provincial programs. Not only is it spending millions on advertising claiming credit for a program that doesn't exist.
It's also, as I have pointed out before, a sneaky attack on the future of medicare.
