Canada is one of the four countries in the world that have maintained a federal structure for more than 100 years (the rest are The United States of America, Switzerland and Australia). Like other true federations, Canada has a constitution that gives the legislative body of each of its federated states the exclusive power to adopt and enforce laws in its territory on a large number of subjects.
Among the subjects that the Constitution attributes exclusively to "provincial" legislatures are education, natural resources and public lands, the administration of justice and prisons, hospitals (which, in practice, Health care), municipal institutions, public works (eg, roads), property and civil rights, and, more generally, matters of a local or …show more content…
These budgets have grown as a result of the increase in solidarity benefits paid to people (social assistance, etc.), growth in public funding for education and health services, and growing demand for services Increasingly expensive urban public spaces.
Although the constitutional articles describing the institutions and their powers can not be changed without the consent of the authorities concerned, so-called "provincial autonomy" would be illusory if the content of provincial laws were dictated by decision- Ottawa, the federal capital, or by a single political party like the one that reigned over the defunct Soviet Union. This autonomy in Canada has become real, albeit always threatened by those who attempt to reduce it.
To finance their spending with their own tax revenues, provincial governments have access to a variety of sources of income, including "direct taxes" (which include all compulsory levies, apart from customs duties and Some other charges undoubtedly borne by others than those who acquit them). The Parliament of Canada, on the other hand, can collect income by any method of
Among the subjects that the Constitution attributes exclusively to "provincial" legislatures are education, natural resources and public lands, the administration of justice and prisons, hospitals (which, in practice, Health care), municipal institutions, public works (eg, roads), property and civil rights, and, more generally, matters of a local or …show more content…
These budgets have grown as a result of the increase in solidarity benefits paid to people (social assistance, etc.), growth in public funding for education and health services, and growing demand for services Increasingly expensive urban public spaces.
Although the constitutional articles describing the institutions and their powers can not be changed without the consent of the authorities concerned, so-called "provincial autonomy" would be illusory if the content of provincial laws were dictated by decision- Ottawa, the federal capital, or by a single political party like the one that reigned over the defunct Soviet Union. This autonomy in Canada has become real, albeit always threatened by those who attempt to reduce it.
To finance their spending with their own tax revenues, provincial governments have access to a variety of sources of income, including "direct taxes" (which include all compulsory levies, apart from customs duties and Some other charges undoubtedly borne by others than those who acquit them). The Parliament of Canada, on the other hand, can collect income by any method of