DCHP-3

provincial rights

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the rights of the several provinces to exercise control in those areas designated as being under provincial jurisdiction in the British North America Act.

Quotations

1882
The future may be made more secure by a better consideration of provincial rights in the exercise of federal rights.
1916
It was in Quebec that the first issue as to provincial rights arose.
1953
Litigation was almost constant between the Macdonald administration and Mowat's Ontario government over the question of "provincial rights."