Canada: The State of the Federation: Open Federalism and the Spending Power

by John R. Allan, Hoi Kong, John R. Allan

Whether considered from the perspective of constitutional law or that of political science, few, if any, areas of Canadian politics are more contested than the use of federal spending power. Initially presented at a conference sponsored by the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in January 2008, the papers in this book consider the topic of federal spending power from a variety of perspectives - legal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553391942
• ISBN13: 9781553391944
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"