POLI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Provincial Rights Party, De Facto

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 221
• Professor: Rick Schultz

Document Summary

Provinces as local government: glorified municipalities. Anything that does not come forward goes towards federal government. S13 and s16: 13: property and civil rights in the province civil law. Not very federal, but centralized, because of these powers: Ike(cid:396)(cid:859)s continuum of the degree of centralized of authority/power. We are not unitary, but close to a centralised federalism in canada. Whea(cid:396)e(cid:859)s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374): they a(cid:396)e sepa(cid:396)ate (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) a sphe(cid:396)e (cid:271)ut (cid:396)oughly e(cid:395)ual (coordinate, assumption that they are equal) Another argument: federal government superior to provincial government: does not mean it is quasi-federal, federal government cannot abolish the provinces, they are protected by constitutions, provinces as a glorified municipalities. Someone must have paramount power even in this situation. Two levels of government that are separate but reasonably equal. Later on, did not want to be treated as inferior: not glorified municipalities, did not want to be treated as junior.