Open AccessCanada’s Inevitable Evolution Towards Bilateral Spending
Author(s) -
Kymone Fletcher
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
federalism-e journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-3435
DOI - 10.24908/fede.v19i1.8679
Subject(s) - federalism , subsidy , jurisdiction , government (linguistics) , political science , federal jurisdiction , cooperative federalism , state (computer science) , public administration , power (physics) , new federalism , law and economics , law , economics , politics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
The federal government should be allowed to provide condition free funding within the provincial jurisdiction. Canada is naturally evolving towards intrastate federalism and a more collaborative government and this evolution has been apparent since the BNA act was formulated.In the BNA act the Canadian provinces were promised ongoing grants/subsidies and we have also seen in Quebec’s case, they opted for a more collaborative form of government for wanting to be represented more at the federal level. It has also been demonstrated that each level of government in Canada’s federal system must be autonomous in its own right or else the system will collapse. Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau views have also been presented to illustrate this. The cases of the United States and Germany have also been brought up to show that not only Canada, but other federal states are redefining what federalism means and re-interpreting their own respective constitutions to bring this new definition into action. The case of Quebec has also been brought up to demonstrate how the biggest players in the Canadian system, how Canadian policy can be updated to limit the amount of critics towards how the federal power is spending its money.