POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: November 3, Fetus
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Government expenditures as % of gdp: 1950 feds: 11. 1, provs: 5. 5, 2009 feds: 15. 5, provs: 20. 6. Government revenues as % of gdp: 1950 feds: 15. 8, provs: 5. 0, 2009 feds: 15. 5, provs: 20. 2. Atlantic provinces are most likely to be have-not . Quebec is very financially strained: ontario is as well, but not nearly as bad as qc. Ottawa has increasingly transferred tax points so that federal taxes do not go up. The courts and the constitution: the courts, federalism, and the charter of rights and freedoms (crf, public opinion and the charter, unanticipated consequences of the charter, the charter and the constitutional order. Constitution is the supreme law of canada. Courts decide what is consistent and inconsistent with the cons. Before the charter crown immunity, police could get away with murder could not sue/arrest the crown. Canadian bill of rights could only be applied within the federal govt: charter was needed for the rest of canadians.
