COMM 315 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Declaratory Judgment, Supreme Court Of Canada, Court Of Quebec
5 Mar 2017
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Every independent nation is sovereign people who live in the country have the power to govern themselves in whichever way that they choose. A country can exercise its sovereignty within its own borders; not beyond. Since 1982, when the constitution act was adopted in canada, our government has been set up into 2 levels federal and provincial. The federal government can"t make laws relating to matters that have been given to the provinces; provincial legislatures are given the right to pass laws on the subjects that the constitution says are reserve exclusively for them. So with federal and provincial laws, we have a division of power in canada. Some belongs to the federal government, some to the provincial, and some are shared. A few examples of laws and which authority they fall under are as follows: Marriage (federal = the definition is federal and the power is federal; provincial = provinces perform it and apply it)
