Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unilateralism, Distinct Society, Constitution Act, 1982

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2230E
• Professor: Cameron Anderson

Document Summary

Competitive federalism 3 goals vertical fiscal balance, horizontal fiscal balance, national standards. Aki(cid:374) to pm chretie(cid:374)(cid:859)s approa(cid:272)h (cid:449)ith (cid:373)ore consultation. Case by case basis in policy negotiation with provinces (climate change) Unclear how centralized trudeau will be to push provinces to agreements. Colonial (federal hierarchy) classical (watertight compartments, coordinate and equal) . Emergency (pogg) cooperative (double bed/ federal initiative) competitive (provincial pushback) constitutional collaborative (non-constitutional renewal of federalism) . Fro(cid:373) go(cid:448)(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:272)o(cid:373)peti(cid:374)g for po(cid:449)er (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es to . Competing visions which underlay the constitutional order of the country: equality of provinces vision, dualist vision, nationalizing vision, rights-based constitutional vision. Why do mega-constitutional politics emerge: quebec silent revolution; rene levesque, western alienation 1982, trudeau borrowed train car for trip cross nation with sons at a time where can. economy was bad. Trudeau decided to provide western canadian products (oil etc. ) to central canada for below market prices. Aboriginal critique of founding myths is that they had little say.