PPAS 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Enumerated Powers, Quasi, Official Language

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 2110
• Professor: Peter Constantinou

Document Summary

Affects the structure the function of all what government does all the time. Division of powers between central and regional governments such that neither is subordinate to the other (eg ottawa is not in charge of other provinces and vice versa) Neither national government acting alone nor the regional governments acting together have authority to alter the powers of other level of government. In contrast, municipal governments are subordinate to provincial. Federal government has a lot of money (therefore influential and authority) Most of the provincial government money come from taxes but municipal government comes from property tax (to pay for local items like roads) ^ therefore, provincial government pays schools (depending on how much students a school has, provincial government will pay the school per student) Federalism, where there is coordination and independence in constitutional sphere independence (eg: argentina, germany, canada, mexico, us) Confederal, formal groupings independent stats agreed to have common institutions.