text: Disagree.  I think the Liberals made this meeting intending it to fail.  The annual increase used to be 6% and is flexible for the first time in a decade.  The provinces would accept 5.2%, the feds offer 3.5%, refuse to negotiate and can now give a 0% increase and blame it on the provinces.  
  
  The PR phrasing has already begun with Phillpotts' whiny "kids with mental health problems" line; the Libs came into this with a marketing strategy to distract from it really being a cold calculated act to help out their budget.