It should also be noted that the federal government is telling only half the truth when it claims that the Canada Job Grant will "put training decision in the hands of employers and workers" [Office of the Prime Minister 2013]. [...] The federal government is not only expecting the provinces to run the programs and take all the risks of doing so, it also seems to expect them to pay for all the costs of administration. [...] A slap in the face for the provinces and territories promulgated right up to the To appreciate the broader significance of the federal government's day the new proposed Canada Job Grant, we need to understand how it contrasts scheme was with the Constitutional and practical precedents for the way Canadian announced." governments deliver public services. [...] In the wake of the failed Meech Lake Accord, the Beaudoin-Dobbie special joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons recommended devolving labour market training programs and funding to willing provinces. [...] By the mid-1990s, the federal government had begun to transfer responsibility for training to the provinces, along with federal financing, for labour market training under the Employment Insurance program (through the Labour Market Development Agreements).