For example the term "Indian" continues to be used in the historical and legal document, the Canadian Constitution and federal statutes.
The proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Primarily, these are the Orders in Council, which give the government the authority to declare war, conclude treaties, issue passports, make appointments, make regulations, incorporate, and receive lands that escheat to the Crown.
Since forest protection is a provincial responsibility in Canada each province has its own system for classifying helicopters for contract use, setting equipment standards and for employing them.
Under the Constitution of Canada, the responsibility for enacting and enforcing labour laws including minimum wages in Canada rests with the ten provinces, the three territories also having been granted this power by virtue of federal legislation.
This series consisted of reports and discussion on topics such as Canadian federalism and the Constitution, the restoration and maintenance of old buildings, the presence of Nazi war criminals in Canada, the McDonald Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP and the Canada Bank Act.
After CODCO's run concluded in 1992, Sexton and Malone wrote and starred in a CBC television special, The National Doubt, satirizing the constitutional debates of the early 1990s.
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The Canada Act 1982 (1982 c. 11) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was passed at the request of the Canadian federal government to "patriate" Canada's constitution, ending the necessity for the country to request certain types of amendment to the Constitution of Canada to be made by the British parliament.
Varty is author of the book, Who Gets Ungava?, analyzing the legal and constitutional issues (particularly the potential partition of the northern "Ungava" region of Quebec), relating to the potential secession of the province of Quebec from Canada.
This process was paralleled in other areas over this period, including the establishment of Canada's own Supreme Court as the court of last resort, the so-called Patriation of the Constitution, and Canadian citizenship (Canadians had been British subjects, and no citizenship per se existed until 1947).
The Constitution of Canada contains mobility rights expressly in section 6 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Valpy co-authored three books (two on Canada's Constitution and the third on on the 21st-century generation of new Canadian adults), produced public affairs documentaries for CBC Radio, contributed chapters to several books on public policy issues and written for Maclean's, Time Canada, Policy Options, Shambhala Sun and Elm Street magazines.
Provincial premiers are not commonly appointed to the QPC, but have been made members on special occasions, such as the centennial of Confederation in 1967 and the patriation of the constitution of Canada in 1982.