POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fiscal Imbalance, Conditionality, Equalization Payments

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Andre Lecours

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There proposal was that canada should be created as a federaion as a decentralized federaion. The french canadians could sill have their government (become the government of the province of quebec: but the government of canada the federal government would be a very powerful government much more than the french-canadian. 3- the b. n. a act: signs of an intent to have a centralized federaion: the division of powers. The division of power (looking at the consituion) Aricle 91 specify the power of the federal government: the public debt and property, regulaion of trade and commerce, the raising of money by an mode or system . When you look at this and yourself in 1860 those were the power that deemed to be important back then. Now we think what social power are important we tend to think about social protecion, health care, educaion etc. Before : health care was run by churches private organizaion.