POLS 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unemployment Benefits, Sole Power, Unanimous Consent
8 Mar 2016
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Federal provincial conflict has increased in post war era due to : recalibrated federal-provincial relations, expansion of the welfare state. All policies of the welfare state fall under section 92 (provinces) But federal gov"t has so much tax money that they use to interfere with this. Provincial economic policies have fragmented the canadian common. Provincial economic interventions fragment the common market: economic diversity based on resources. Federalism = a zero sum game (both are never happy at the same time: matters of jurisdiction, problematic in spheres of shared jurisdiction. National community vs. regional diversity: imperial conference of 1926, britain recognized political independence of members of the british. Commonwealth: autonomous units, allied to the british empire, british told canada to go away, canada said no. No major rebellions: i. e not like the u. s. a. Little resistance from imperial authorities: i. e not like in ireland. Deference to britain incompatible with nationalism emerging in quebec and.
