Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lower Canada, Henry Morgentaler, New Economics Foundation
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Constitution act of 1982: act of 1867 used to be called british north america before act of 1982, charter of r&f are included in con. Created in a series of meetings between 1864-1867. Fathers of confederation: originally supposed to be a meeting with three provinces to form a country, upper canada (ontario) and lower canada (quebec) joined in as well. This statute was a statute of britain for 100+ years meaning if canada wanted to change anything they would have to beg britain: 3 essential elements of 1982: Bna act left britain and became statute of canada. First time canada had a formalized constitutional amendment process. What is federalism: constitutional structure of the gov"t, gov"t jurisdiction shared by two levels of gov"t, national and, regional/provincial/state b. i. 3 ways of changing the constitution in canada: formal amending process (formal, s. 38 s. Constitutions are extremely hard to change through a formal process. Canada was the 3rd country to adopt federalism.
