POLI 221 Study Guide - Final Guide: Charlottetown Accord, October Crisis, Judicial Activism
8 Aug 2016
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The second pillars of our system of government. One pillar, legislature: shifts, have led significant checks to decrease in significance, centralized power of pm. The other pillar: federal system, divided power, federal system was supposed to be one of the majour checks in the system, what we have seen is this check has changed over time, evolution of federalism. Federalism divides power (trend line: towards the erosion of the powers of some of those checks and the concentration of power). In federalism there has been a swing back and forth between the two, shifts in power between the provinces and the federal government. federalism, the legitimacy of divided loyalists, we are quebecers as well as canadians. Trudeau believed people had to be faithful to the country and not their province, divided loyalties between nation and the regions. How and why did the canadian federal system change between 1867 .
