POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kyoto Protocol, Stumpage, Padlock Law

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2300
• Professor: Sharma Ajay

Document Summary

2 key components of the canadian constitution: the constitution act, 1867, key amendments, 1907-1964, british statutes and orders-in-council, organic canadian statutes, constitution act, 1982, constitutional conventions. 3 the constitution act, 1867: bna act, creation of canada as a nation-state, british westminster system and federalism, executive federalism, concentrated and dispersed power, division of powers, sections 91 and 92. Legislative power: provincial constitutions, distribution of powers, division of power; concurrent power, supreme court of canada not explicitly established. Laws passed by parliament: quasi-constitutional status, creating provinces out of the northwest territories, manitoba act, 1870, saskatchewan and alberta act, 1005, canada elections act, bill of rights act, citizenship act. Last amendment to constitution act, 1867: domestic amending formula, position of the monarch remains, canadian charter of rights and freedoms, multiculturalism, aboriginal rights, equalization payments. Largest body of legal decisions: classical theory of federalism, remained in place until 1949.