POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Big Government, Preston Manning, Quebec Act
16 Jan 2017
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Canada- a brief history regionalism and federalism- a political culture. The quebec act 1774: practiced language, established civil law. Constitution act 1791: lower (quebec) vs. upper canada (ontario) Concept called loyalist : wanted to be under the rule under the. Established two groups: accepting elites as their leader eventually became tories, reformers: became liberals. Found the situation of canada at the time was very separated. Executives have to be accountable for the positions. In the u. s no one can throw away the vote that easily. A lot of tension between east and west of canada. John macdonald purposes a federal system giving the province its own legislature. Today: not so true because government has more power, province has more power. To give provinces its own power to deal within its jurisdictions. Main thing it did for canada: ending british control of canada. Gave us a lot of power to establish our own system, statue, jurisdiction etc.
