POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Democratic Deficit
9 Dec 2017
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Balance nation building with province building and regional aspirations and new political communities. Immigrant groups, first nations, gender groups, political groups. We started off by accommodating one thing but now we must accommodate many diversities. Canadians have been early champions of these issues and problems, for the future and the rest of the world. Each of the worlds federations has its own. Divided federalism: opposite of integrated federalism, designed so that french and. The main goal was to separate french and english. Nation wide standards: public health care, equalization payments. Canadians continue to value, provincial, local experimentation. Canada is always about choosing national standards or provincial experiments. Provinces develop new things, they adapt new things. Finding a balance between the new things. We are stuck with province vs federal. Simeon doesn"t see that as a problem. We need to develop new institutions to do this. Its difficult for the provinces and federal government to do their own thing.
