They are doing it in BC. And I don't like it. The friendly briefers at YVR tell me that NavCan will centralize their jobs to the interior. So instead of talking to someone who knows who I am, and what I do, and who can look out the window and tell me that there is or isn't a cloud bank over the Alex Fraser Bridge, I'll get someone reading an area forecast and METARs to me. There is some really useful briefing information that starts with "while I was driving to work ..."