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Similarly, it’s an independent-sounding thing for a province to want to collect its own taxes — especially when Moe frames it as “essentially what the province of Quebec has.”

“We have the template in Quebec that we can replicate here in Saskatchewan,” Moe said.

But you have to wonder whether our politicians are behaving like adult parents or teenagers whining about someone getting to do something they don’t.

“In many cases, like climate policy, the provinces are most connected with the needs of the industries that are operating in our communities across the province,” he told reporters last week, adding that while immigration is a shared federal/provincial jurisdiction, Quebec has managed to get a special deal with Ottawa in which it puts forth its own plan for immigration and has the ability to target immigration based on economic, family and humanitarian considerations.

Thick books have been written about how destructive it’s been for our national interests to permit separate rules for Quebec that essentially allow it to function as an independent state. In that sense, most everyone outside Quebec shares Moe’s frustration. Moreover, the right of a province to be able to select its own immigrants as Quebec does would seem fairer for all.

But it’s only fair until you think about how rightly appalled the rest of the nation is over Quebec’s Bill 21, which eliminates public servants’ right to wear religious dress or symbols — not exactly what the rest of the nation deems adult behaviour.