A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Scott states:
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And provincial governments are controlled by the federal government.
Otherwise, provinces could opt out of the national health care system.
They
can't.
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Now, are you 100% sure that provinces can't opt out of the national
healthcare system?

Now be VERY careful when you answer this. This IS a trick question. To
answer it, you'll need to explain what would happen to a province that
opts out (or tries to opt out).

I hear Jeopardy music in the background..... Scotty, your time is
running out!!!!

Well, let's hear it. Clearly there is a national policy regarding this
issue, so once again we have central control. That the central government
may choose to allow a province to opt out doesn¹t deny the existence of a
federal program. Nor would the fact that the government-controlled health
care program is run by the provincial government in any way damage my
assertion. Government is government, whatever the level, and if it controls
and rations health care, the result is the same, irrespective of whether
it's done provincially (pun intended) or at the federal level. It's not the
free market, which is what counts.

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