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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (347)	12/10/2002 3:02:21 AM
From: Condor	Respond to of 443

HDI The UN`s Human Development Index (HDI).

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (347)	12/10/2002 11:48:40 AM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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 ....