ENV422H1 Lecture Notes - Ultra Vires, Meech Lake Accord, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
21 Mar 2013
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Constitution division of powers ccrf (charter) Reflects the values of society and embodied in certain periods. Division of powers section 91, section 92. In canada, the only 2 bodies that can make laws are the one federal government and the ten provincial governments; cities can make law, those are bylaws. Every issues deal with the tension between the federal and provincial government trade, keystone pipelines and the tar sand issues. Federal can negotiate the treaty but the federal government has no power to force the province to do it. Provincial powers s. 92: specific heads. 92(5) management and sale of public lands. 92(16) matters of a local or private nature: natural resources. 92(a) non-renewable forestry, electricity, laws export and tax. Legislative rights] 1982 resources amendment captures changes in powers to manage and to capture revenues from non-renewable and forestry resources sand the generation of electrical energy. Federal powers s. 91: specific rights.
