The report suggests that ending the health and social transfers — while giving provinces more space to raise tax revenue of their own — could end the "tug of war."

The Canadian Press tried to order the cheapest available gram or pre-roll of dried flower in each province and territory during the afternoon of Oct. 17.

It was an idea proposed by an NDP MP more than 40 years ago and could be revisited at the party’s national convention in Edmonton this weekend: the adoption of the islands of Turks and Caicos as Canada's 11th province.