POLS 3210 Chapter 4-9: Consitutional Oddesy Readings

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3210
• Professor: Dave Snow

Document Summary

The most e ective constitutional force in the new federation was the provincial rights movement. Ontario spearheaded the provincial rights movement as ontario reformers and quebec liberals began to organize a competing national party, they naturally took up the provincial cause. Oliver mowat"s liberals in ontario won 6 successive elections and held o ce the longest and built the strongest record of provincial rights advocacy. The rst objective of the provincial rights movement was to resist and overcome a hierarchical version of canadian federalism in which the provinces were to be treated as a subordinate or junior level of government. Abolition of the federal disallowance power topped the list of constitutional proposals emanating from the interprovincial conference of 1887 conference was called by honore mercier the premier of quebec. Macdonald and the conservative premiers of bc and pei declined the invitation delegates from the liberal governments of the four original provinces and from.