"How Canadian Govern Themselves" : Part I
1. Governments in democracies are elected by the passengers to steer the ship of the nation. They are expected to hold it on course, to arrange for a prosperous voyage, and to be prepared to thrown overboard if they fail in either duty.------UG?
2. A federal state is one that brings together a number of different political communities with a common government for common purposes, and separate 'states' or 'provincial' or 'cantonial' governments for the particular purposes of each community....Federalism combines unity with diversity. It provides, as John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister, said, "A general government and legislature for general purposes with local governments and legislatures for local purposes."
3. The Fathers of Confederation were faced with the task of bringing together small communities scattered over immense distances. Not only were these communities separated by natural barriers that might well have seemed insurmountable, but they were also divided deep divergences of economic interest, language, religion, law and education.
To all these problems, they could find only one answer:federalism
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F.N. Lugemwa
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