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Provincial notes

15 October 2016

9:00 AM

15 October 2016

9:00 AM

Turnbull was right. Let the states tax us

Go and teach a constitutional law course in my native Canada and almost all the law students will simply assume that a strong, competitive federalism is a good thing. This is the default assumption. Premiers of the same political party as the Canadian Prime Minister will regularly attack that PM on any issue that hurts their province; party allegiance comes second to being seen to stand up to Ottawa.

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