The Federal System
Introduction

Although the Canadian political community has endured for over 130 years, it has been subject to persistent internal strains that threaten its cohesion. These strains reflect the fundamental difficulty of creating a political community within a vast territory encompassing several regions with distinctive interests and distinctive identities. In this and the following chapters, we will explore the nature of the strains that have imperilled Canadian unity and the methods that have been adopted to try to alleviate them. This chapter will set the context for the others by providing an overview of the evolution of the institutions and processes of the Canadian federal system.

The Federal System:
Distribution of Powers

The founders of confederation settled on a federal system for two reasons. First, assigning jurisdiction over language and religion to the provinces was a means to insulate national politics from the divisive conflicts over......

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