Splitting hairs

From today's Telegram:

Hickey said comparing Marine Atlantic to provincial services doesn’t make sense, starting with the fact Marine Atlantic services are constitutionally guaranteed.

Where in that constitutional guarantee does it say anything about the rates?

32. (1) Canada will maintain in accordance with the traffic offering a freight and passenger steamship service between North Sydney and Port aux Basques, which, on completion of a motor highway between Corner Brook and Port aux Basques, will include suitable provision for the carriage of motor vehicles.

And what is it about the non-constitutional nature of the provincial ferries that give the province free rein?

This is what they would call, in Danny Williams' and Tom Rideout's law schools, a "distinction without a difference?

Jamie Baker also reports:

Although the Argentia run is dubbed non-constitutional, Hickey said his department doesn’t see things that way.

Hickey's department is hereby challenged to find the word "Argentia" in Term 32.