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Ch 17 - The Federal System Flashcards

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What is federalism?

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  • Division of powers between the central and regional (provincial) governments
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What does federalism tell us about Canada’s political system?

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  • Relationship between central and regional governments is equal in status
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Are the municipal governments subordinate to the provincial governments?

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  • YES
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Are the Territorial governments subordinate to the national government?

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  • YES
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Who is the provincial head of state?

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  • Lt. Governor
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Who appoints the Lt. Governor?

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  • The Prime Minister
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Who is the head of government at the provincial level?

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  • Premier
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Who makes up the provincial political system’s executive branch?

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  • Drawn from legislative assembly
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Who appoints the ministers?

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  • Premier
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How is the provincial legislative assembly formed?

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  • Elections
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How are provincial chambers organized?

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  • Unicameral (one chamber)
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What view did Sir John A Macdonald have for federalism?

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  • Very Centralized
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How is Canada’s federal system organized today?

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Decentralized

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How is Canada’s federal system decentralized?

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  • Judicial Review
  • Shifting Jurisdictional Importance
  • Taxing Power
  • Public Favour
  • National Standards
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What are the 5 components of the confederation settlement?

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  • Division of powers between the central and provincial government
  • Division of financial resources
  • Federal control imposed upon the provinces
  • Provincial representation in the central institutions
  • Certain cultural guarantees
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What is Quasi-federalism?

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  • Provinces subordinate to Ottawa
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What is Classical Federalism?

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  • Fed/prov equal in status and independent
18
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What is Emergency Federalism?

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  • Federal gov’t virtually unlimited powers under the emergency doctrine of the War Measures Act
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What is Cooperative Federalism?

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  • Equal in status but intertwined financially
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What is conflictual federalism?

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  • More provincial independence with shift to block grants & growing Quebec nationalism
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What is the fiscal gap?

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  • Provincial taxes not enough for provincial government responsibilities, top-sided-ness of taxes.
22
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What are the four main transfer programs in Canada?

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  • Canada Health Transfer (CHT)
  • Canada Social Transfer (CST)
  • Equalization Formula Financing
  • Territorial Formula Financing (TFF)
23
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Explain the Cost-shared programme in Canada

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Provincially administered
- Ottawa’s financial contribution is geared to how much a province needs

24
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What is block funding?

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  • Feds are not obliged to match provincial spending
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What is the results of Block Funding?
- Increase in the financial burden upon the provinces to pay the costs for health care & post-secondary education
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What are the two categories that funding can fall under?
- Conditional grants - Unconditional grants
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What is a conditional grant?
- Some of the money Ottawa transfers to the provinces carries conditions as to how it can be spent
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What are unconditional grants?
- Financial transfers with no strings attached
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What are the 5 important principles of the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer?
1. Portability of coverage between provinces 2. Comprehensiveness of provincial plans 3. Universality 4. Public Funding 5. Public Administration
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What is an example of a conditional grant?
- Canada Health Act
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What is an example of an unconditional grant?
- Equalization Grant
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What is the equalization grant?
- payments made from the federal governmetn to the provinces whose per capita tax revenues falls below average of two most affluent provinces.
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How much of all federal transfers do equalization payments account for?
- 1/4
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Are there conditions on equalization payments?
NO
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What do provinces complain about federal payments?
- Inadequate - Fed gov't interfere in prove jurisdiction through spending
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Why did government pull some funding from provinces?
- Provinces blaming feds for undermining National Standards in social programmes
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What areas of policy do federal and provincial work together in?
- Health Care - Equalization Payments / Transfers - Environment - Indigenous Peoples - Cities - Justice - Quebec
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What kind of federalism was Canada under PM Martin?
- Collaborative Federalism
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What type of Federalism was Canada under Harper?
- Open Federalism (very decentralized)
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What kind of federalism is Canada under Trudeau?
- Centralized
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