POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Provincial Rights Party, France 2, Canadian Federalism
1 Jun 2016
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Canada was created as a federation both levels of government have sovereignty meaning they have full power to act in their territory specified in the constitution. We find this division of power in the constitution it cannot be changed unilaterally by provincial or federal government. Courts - a law can be changed in a majority of parliament, the. A unitary state has many different levels of government ex. France: sources of change in federations, partisan politics and political parties. In politics, a partisan is a committed member of a political party whom has significant views on the most desirable distribution of power between federal and provincial government. We can compare between the three most popular political parties: Parties that put forth equality and social justice are most centralist such as the new democratic party. Parties that put freedom in front of equality are more decentralist such as the conservative party.
