A DISTURBANCE IN THE FEDERATION.

Three weeks after the October federal election, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe was in Ottawa for his first face-to-face postelection meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Even as two consecutive prime ministers have worked to avoid being ganged up on by the premiers, the premiers are losing the knack of ganging up. "I don't see as many long-standing cross-provincial alliances that provide a counterweight to Ottawa as we used to see", she said. PHOTO (COLOR): Saskatchewan Premier Moe's first post-election meeting with Trudeau did not go well; his wish list was starkly at odds with the PM's re-election promises. [Extracted from the article]

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