The mayor and council are letting the provincial government to accept these federal government equalization payments “unconditionally,” and the federal government states that the citizens of Nova Scotia have to hold the provincial government accountable. The federal government’s unconditional transfer is not legal as it is not stated in s.36 anywhere. The federal government is basing its unconditional transfer on claiming their opinion it is included in the wording of 36 (1) “Without altering the legislative authority of Parliament or of the provincial legislatures, or the rights of any of them with respect to the exercise of their legislative authority, Parliament and the legislatures, together with the government of Canada and the provincial governments are committed to a, b and c.” However, no such unconditional transfer is mentioned in the constitution. Legally, constitutionally how is it considered possible for a constitutional government just to make changes to the constitution which then results in both levels of government being able to ignore the constitution of Canada? Apparently, not only the N.S. Appeal Court thinks it can override the 1950 Supreme Court of Canada’s decision that the constitution does not belong to government, it belongs to the people.