POLI 371 Study Guide - Final Guide: Potash, Copyright Law Of New Zealand, Central Canada

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 371
• Professor: Christa Scholtz

Document Summary

For the first time since confederation, a constitutional amendement transferred legislative authority from parliament to the provinces. By the mid-1970s, the western provinces, in particular, claimed that these factors restricted and impinged upon provincial rights and responsibilities with respect to natural resources. In the early 1970s, an imminent international energy shortage and a rapid rise in the price of oil made energy a crucial issue of public policy. Throughout the decade, the pretroleum-producing provinces of alberta, bc and saskatchewan undertook a series of policy initiatives designed to clarify, strengthen and exercise more effectively their boundaries. In an effort to assert the crown"s position as owner of the natural resources within alberta and the rights to the revenues derived from those resources, the provincial government, in the fall of. 1973 introduced legislation which provided that, even after production, the royalty share of. It increased alberta"s government"s control of crown-owned resources .