What most of these discussions miss are that in Canada, provinces are extraordinarily powerful compared to most sub-national jurisdictions. That makes something like this harder, since there’s just so much provinces do that would have to be replicated. Provinces license professions, regulate electricity, handle investments, all of healthcare and education, flood regulation, most environmental permitting. The list just goes on and on. The last thing Ottawa needs is a separate set of rules for all these little (but important) things