POLI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pension, Donald J. Savoie

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

Document Summary

We start out as highly centralized, but we"re moving to more decentralized. More separate and equal provincial"s rights movement provinces are upset with the use of disallowance power in 1887, call premiers and didn"t invite federal. Laurier is critical of macdonald"s centralized federation: sunny"s ways, provincial autonomy up to 1947, the provincial power in spending increased significantly province powers were not thought of as significant in 1867. Canada became much more decentralized; divided societies; divided loyalties. By 1920, we were more urban than rural. Education, health, welfare became much more important the realities of divided societies (dual loyalties; divided loyalties) place more emphasis on judicial interpretations. Laurier is elected start placing important limits three compartment theory by 1930: pogg is residual power, emergency (e. g. temperance law on drunkenness; alcohol was a major problem in canada) Jcpc elevates provincial jurisdiction (civil and property rights have become important.