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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (347)12/10/2002 11:48:40 AM
From: SofaSpud  Read Replies (1) of 443
 
From what I recall from Poli Scie classes 20 years ago, the suggestion was that the Fathers of Confederation saw what was going on down south and wanted to deliberately avoid the "mistake" of having strong states. Hence Canada was designed to have a strong centralized structure, with only things that were unimportant [in the 1860s] being explicitly assigned to the provinces, and residual powers retained by the feds. The kink in the works was that stuff like health care and education, for example, became pretty important.

The result is that, despite the intentions of the Fs of C, the provinces are fairly powerful, and the central government is weaker. Now, there are those of us who would argue that the feds aren't weak enough ....
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