Nathan Denette/CP NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath speaks to supporters at the Blue Star diner during a campaign stop in Welland Ont., on Oct. 17, 2019. — The billions of dollars the federal government transfers to provinces for health care gives it leverage that NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he’d use to push for better local services. But health care is a provincial responsibility and decisions about hospital operations and services are made by provincial governments, not federal leaders. We have the power to encourage things,” Singh told reporters during a campaign stop in Welland, Ont. Singh would be personally affected by the law if he tried to work as a teacher, for example, in Quebec.

Source: Huffington Post October 17, 2019 20:03 UTC