Earth Sciences 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Patriation, English Canada, New Economics Foundation
29 Oct 2017
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3 important conferences: charlotte town conference september 1864, discuss unity of canada. Instead of finding a unity, let(cid:859)s find a bigger unity w/ provincers of. Government jurisdiction shared by two levels of government: (i) national and (ii) regional/provincial/state. Each level of government is independent from the other, and they derive their governing powers from the constitution. Central government has power to deal with national issues, to make laws applicable to all citizens and to represent the units of the federation. Courts are designated to settle federal /regional constitutional disputes: courts are decision makers. Amending formula in constitution prevents one level from making unilateral changes to constitution. Diversity in unity & unity in diversity: best single slogan to describe how federalism works. Switzerland (1848) decentralized fragile/weak federal government - Canada (1867) in between we(cid:859)re in middle, leaning towards being decentralized. Former czechoslovakia - broke into two countries. Former yugoslavia broke into 6 countries.
