Brownlee attempted to leverage his relationship with King to win provincial control of natural resources.
The committee proposed greater provincial control over areas such as regional development, energy, manpower training, tourism, forestry, mining, housing, recreation and urban affairs.
He also called for exclusive provincial control over such minor tax fields as gasoline and electricity taxes.
As the minister responsible Peckford fought hard for provincial control over the emerging industry.
During the 1982 constitutional negotiations Peckford tried to acquire greater provincial control of the fisheries, but was unable to get enough support from other premiers.
In some provinces, individual hospital boards have been eliminated and combined into quasi-private regional health authorities, subject to varying degrees of provincial control.
The plebiscite 1894 failed due to federal disapproval of provincial control on importation of alcohol.
Regain areas of former provincial control from the federal government.
However, many aspects of local governance are actually under centralized provincial or national control.
"That's the point at which we will have turned over all 18 provinces to provincial Iraqi control," he predicted.