Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Distinct Society, Legal Certainty, Responsible Government
5 Dec 2017
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Pre-confederation: small population, very scattered population, the large distance between populations created large differences in common interests and commonalities, divided by economics, language, religion, law. 1981, which lead to 12 things including: creating the federation, the provinces, territories, national parliament, provincial legislatures and some provincial cabinets, gave parliament power to create provinces and power to change provincial boundaries without consent of provinces concerned. Thursday september 21 2017: set out power of parliament and provincial legislatures, vested formal executive power in the queen and created queen"s privy council for. Canada: gave parliament power to set up scc, guaranteed limited rights equally to english and french languages in the federal. Parliament in quebec and manitoba: guaranteed serpent schools for protestant and roman catholic in quebec and ontario. 1914: beginning of wwi: at the beginning of the first world war we have britain involved and canada joining. 1931: statute of westminister: limited britain"s legislative authority over canada, doesn"t include the constitutio.
