POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Property Law
Document Summary
The province were assigned unimportant stuff: the provinces were assigned matters which in the context of the 19th century, were regarded as merely of local or provincial interest: In the 19th century, there was no publicly funded health care, and the educational system was rudimentary. Property and civil rights were assigned to the provinces, as a strategy for placating. This was to ensure that quebec"s unique civil law system was under the control of the province: property law covers real estate, housing, and urban planning. Civil rights cover the law between persons (examples: family law, landlord-tenant, employer-employee in the private sector), and commercial law. In the 19th century, legal control over these relationships was rudimentary. It was intended to grant the federal government a broad power. 42: on this graph, canada has been somewhere in-between centralized federalism and. Decentralized federalism in that middle column for most of its history.
