Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Maritimes, Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Federalism
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Three important aspects: two primary documents, constitution act of 1962, bna act of 1867, the elections act, citizenship act, indian act, thousands of court decisions over the last 15o years that interpreted the const act of. Qb conference of 1864: charlotte town conference where people met to talk if they wanted to create a bigger canada. Bna act was for 100 years an ordinary statue of westminster parliament: canada was in a position where a statue was in another country. If they wanted to amend between 1867-1982 had to go to westminster. Parliament to pass the amendment: 1950s: effort to patriate the co(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:858)(cid:271)ri(cid:374)g it ho(cid:373)e(cid:859, pierre trudeau brought it back to canada. Primary feature is national gov with a certain amount of delegating powers. Meant to achieve political compromise in order to live as one nation state but can complicate democracy. We have it so one level of gov cannot give consent without the other level.
