POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Unemployment Benefits, Individual And Group Rights

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Mark Yanisziewski

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92 & 93 of bna act) : tells us areas of provincial jurisdiction, some taxation rights, solemnization of marriage, municipal governments, property and civil rights, education. 95 of bna act) : tells us what are shared or concurrent powers, agriculture. Residual powers clause: the constitution has a residual powers clause, states all left over aspects not specifically mentioned by the bna act belongs to the federal level of government in canada (ottawa) In canada known as pogg clause (peace, order and good government: all leftover bits that are need for pogg should be handled by ottawa. In the us, residual powers belong to the individual states. It could be thought that canada was highly centralized but, has evolved: thanks to series of court cases that interpreted what these powers actually meant. Jcpc over the years made critical rulings on the interpretation of powers and the constitution: one of the key ones had to do with (cid:862)property and civil rights(cid:863)