20 January 2017 - Provinces holding out from signing a health-care accord with the federal government were dealt a significant blow this week when yet another jurisdiction announced it was breaking from the pack and inking a side deal with Ottawa.

The fact that it was Saskatchewan, led by Premier Brad Wall, a vocal adversary of the Justin Trudeau government, was particularly meaningful. Mr. Wall is the most senior first minister in the land, who has years of experience reading federal tea leaves.

With New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador already having abandoned hope that the provinces, in the form of a united front, might pressure Ottawa to sweeten its health-care offer, it seemed only a matter of time before others began seeing things the same way.

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