POL337Y1 Lecture Notes - Big Country, Lower Canada, New Economics Foundation
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It doesn"t seem right to parole parliament based on your political experiment. But it would be hard to diffuse that request. Doubt to legislate within particular set of jurisdictional area neither of which can subjugate the other. Each level of government are in that sense sovereign. Southern ontario where there are mostly english-speaking people. George etienne cartier: friend of mcdonalds, french canadian, was not that important at the time but today he is considered important. Shadow of us: creating a big country to defend itself, 1867 there are not many countries that are federal. Canada is thinking of having this federal system of govt. Then us is, and it just had civil war. So this has perception that federalism is messy and leads to war. Shadow of great britain: on the other hand, gb is calmer. Goal was creating one canada: common defense, commercial prosperity. Political expansion etc: bridging the ethno-linguistic divide. Canada has a significant territorially concentrated linguistic divide.
