PLSC 2231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Concurrent Jurisdiction, Marine Pollution, Christian Democrat Organization Of America
20 Mar 2018
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A taxonomy of federal models that have been used to define canadian federalism over time . Open federalism (the harper era: the trudeau liberals do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a set (cid:374)a(cid:373)e but look to be follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g the poi(cid:374)ts of a (cid:373)ore collaborative model. There are also over-arching patterns of federalism within which the models (above) operate . Interstate federalism: formalized relations between national and provincial governments resembling relations between countries. Intrastate federalism: where federal and provincial concerns are addressed via national government institutions. Executive federalism: where the executives of both levels of government (ministers & their officials) compete & collaborate: *executive federalism has been the most common pattern for canada* One major objective of federalism is to strike a jurisdictional balance between 2 levels of government. So, federalism is essentially a political arrangement (a form of contract) that, to an extent, institutionalizes diversity. Federalism is an arrangement that builds nationhood and national unity (via levels of government) where none is present naturally.
