Parliament, Intergovernmental Relations, and National Unity
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Authors
Franks, C.E.S.
Date
1999
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working paper
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en
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In 1997 the privy council office commissioned me to make a study of "Parliament and National Unity". For that study I was asked to examine two issues central to Canadian politics and governance: first, what the role of parliament is in national unity and what prevents parliament from having a stronger role in this crucial Canadian concern; and second, what reforms might strengthen parliament's role in promoting national unity. I was delighted and excited to do this study. My previous work on the Canadian Parliament had focussed on parliamentary institutions themselves, and, perhaps because national unity and parliament both in theory and in practice are only distantly related, had neglected the relationship between parliament and that second vital Canadian institution for national policy-making, federal-provincial relations.
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© 1999 IIGR, Queen's University
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Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations