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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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adj.
of, associated with, or under the jurisdiction of the government of Canada.
Quotations
1883
We are Canadian enough in our views to look at Dominion matters from the Federal rather than the Provincial standpoint, though in matters of local self-government we shall be as jealous of Provincial rights as we are of Federal rights.
1925
The verdict read for ten years in the federal prison, with hard labour.
1966
[He] warned . . . that in federal debates a stagnation has set in that could destroy Parliament.