POLI 222 Lecture 6: Nationalism and Federalism in Canada

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 222
• Professor: Christa Scholtz

Document Summary

It is embedded within the rule, to change the rule different visions of how. Ambiguous, because arguably our rules incorporate different visions about who we are so if you like clarity and certainty you should not be studying. Constitutional ambiguity gives us wiggle room in order to live together and diverse people to coexist. In the absence of any formal text saying that you can secede, the secession of a province is a massive amendment to the constitution but there is no text to ground the decision of the supreme court. The story that the court tells us in the reference and the answers they give, we can think about nationalism and federalism together. The aboriginal challenge: layered, one-dimensional story about a constitutional structure and a different story that some aboriginal people in the country say. Nationalism exists but nations do not ernest renan 1882 benedict andersons imagend community. There is no consensus, there is various definitions of nationalism.