When you state going into the meeting that this is the offer, and this is the money for home care and mental health and these are the rules and if you don't take it today everything is off the table, you are not negotiating in the truest sense. This is not collaboration, instead this simply a power play that breaks down to dictating to the provinces what will happen. If some provinces take the deal, which appears likely , then perhaps the goal of weakening the provinces position will have been achieved. This does not bode well for the future.