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Canadian Law and Order: The Courts

Category: The Canadian Experience Written by Adam Chapnick

Canadian Law and Order: The CourtsTo an outsider, the structure of the Canadian judiciary is just as complicated as the legal challenges that it faces every day. The British North America Act of 1867 granted the federal government jurisdiction over criminal law but left the provinces with the primary responsibility for the
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Bureaucratic Nightmares: The Public Service and the Future of Canada

Category: The Canadian Experience Written by Adam Chapnick

When analysts call Canada an administrative state, they’re usually referring to the size and structure of the Canadian public service. What began in the 19th century as a relatively small organization characterized by political patronage appointments has evolved to become the largest single
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On Being ‘Canadian’: Citizenship

Category: The Canadian Experience Written by Adam Chapnick

Canada’s first official citizen, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, did not become “Canadian” until 1947 when he was 72 years-old. Between 1867 and 1946, there was no such thing as Canadian citizenship. By law, Canadians were British subjects who lived in Canada.
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Democracy in Canada: Elections and Voting

Category: The Canadian Experience Written by Adam Chapnick

Canada’s first federal election was hardly democratic. Voting in 1867 was limited to upper class, male, British subjects. There was no secret ballot and no law to govern campaign contributions. Those who were eligible to vote might not have seen or heard from the party leaders (there was no
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The Canadian Charter

Category: The Canadian Experience Written by Norman Hillmer

In the early 1950s, working in the historic East Block of the Parliament Buildings, Pierre Trudeau’s lifelong preoccupation with Canada’s constitution took root. Three decades later, as the country’s prime minister, Trudeau remodelled the Canadian constitution and embedded into it
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The Canadian Constitution Act, 1982

Category: The Canadian Experience Written by Norman Hillmer

In April 1982, in a public ceremony on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the Constitution Act, marking the end of a process that was so unusual that a word had to be invented to describe it. The Canadian constitution had been
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The Canadian Constitution

Category: The Canadian Experience Written by Norman Hillmer

In 1867, when British colonies in North America united into a single country, the British Parliament issued a birth certificate, the British North America (BNA) Act. The BNA Act was a constitution for the new Canada, setting out the basic structure of government and law, and making it explicitly
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  4. The Geography of Canada

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