Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform

by Alan Cairns

Responding to the increasing diversity of the Canadian population -- and to an increasing sensitivity to historical diversities -- the 1982 Constitution Act amended the British North America Act and introduced the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, giving new powers to heterogeneous groups within the Canadian polity. These changes disturbed the equilibrium of an older, federalist Canada whose constitutional concerns were limited to the relative powers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773508929
• ISBN13: 9780773508927
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"