POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ultra Vires, October Crisis, Quebec Sovereignty Movement
5 Dec 2016
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Set of rules that regulate governing institutions, and relations between the people and the government: written or unwritten, unitary or federal, constrains political power, more dif cult to change than a law, most include rights of citizens. Neither level can act alone to alter the powers of the other. Bna act 1867 act of the british parliament. Sunday, december 4, 2016: judicial review: judicial committee of the privy council (british) Only decision: intra vires, ultra vires: statute of westminster (1930) > supreme court of canada. Judicial decisions: examples: ontario hydro, unemployment act struct down; fed. prov. Agreement, 1940: alberta press case, 1930s, 1982 amendment & charter of rights and freedoms. Role of quebec: historical role in canada, linguistic and religiously distinct, 1960s: quiet revolution. Not at home in canada - maitre chez nous . Growth of separatism - sovereignty association: opting out clauses. Fiscal federalism: fiscal gap: provinces had more responsibility than taxing power.
