POLS 2600 Lecture 9: N20 - Constitutional reform and the future of the country

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2600
• Professor: Normand Perreault

Document Summary

Constitutincreasing pressure for larger municipalities to gain greater jurisdictional and fiscal autonomy, and for the federal government to develop a stronger direct relationship with cities. ional reform and the future of the country. It"s important to have a dynamic view of federalism - it is not a set system, and historically has been everything but that. Canadian federalism has been the framework in which nation building, province building and regionalism have been able to coexist. These two things (nation and province) are the drivers for federalism. Nation building - process of building a modern european style country in north. This vision of nation building is still with us - building canada as a nation. It"s easy to lose sight of this because we have succeeded in building somewhat of a nation. But in the 30s, etc people saw canada as a work in progress, or quebecers and not canadian, or subject of the british monarchy.