POLS 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Concurrent Powers
20 Dec 2017
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Confederation and the british north american act 1867. Components of confederation settlements federal controls imposed upon the provinces: division of powers, division of financial resources, provincial representation in central institutions, certain cultural guarantees territorial expansion. Division of powers: 3 categories: those powers granted exclusively to the national government, those powers granted exclusively to the provincial or regional governments. Concurrent powers or those powers that are shared. Financial division: as far as finances are concerned, the federal government dominates. This is because the federal government has the power to levy both direct and indirect taxes whereas the provinces only have the ability to levy direct taxes as in the provincial sales tax. Compromise: representation by population in house of commons and regional equality in senate cultural guarantees: at that time, quebec especially concerned over preservation of catholic religion more than french language separate schools to preserve french culture.
