HIST 2600 Lecture : HIST 2600 February 3 2014 Lecture IX.docx
3 Apr 2014
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Organizes the first interprovincial conference 1887: a meeting of provincial premiers to discuss way to limit federal government power, looking at it as a numbers in power situation, recruiting all of the other provinces, bc and pei decline, because they have conservative provincial governments, the five other provinces attend because they have liberal provincial governments, declares that provinces have increased rights and influence of federal government be diminished, press for larger federal subsidies ($, and abolition of federal power of disallowance. 2: in canada education has always been a provincial issue not federal but after confederation federal government had to power to protect minority groups in the educational system, in quebec after confederation a special system was set up, one for catholics (french) and protestants (english, francophone in other parts of canada do not get this right unless it was in law before confederation, this affect new brunswick.
