Module 11. Seeking redress Powers of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures |
Powers of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures
Powers of the Parliament of Canada
The powers of Parliament include the following:
- Public Debt and Property
- Regulation of Trade/Commerce
- Unemployment insurance
- Direct/Indirect Taxation
- Postal Service
- Census/Statistics
- Defence
- Navigation/Shipping
- Quarantine
- Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries
- Ferries (interprovincial/international)
- Currency/Coinage
- Banking /Incorporation of Banks/Paper Money
- Weights and Measures
- Bankruptcy
- Patents
- Copyrights
- Indians/Indian reserves
- Citizenship
- Marriage/Divorce
- Criminal law, including Criminal Procedure
- Penitentiaries
- Works connecting provinces; beyond boundaries of one province; within a province but to the advantage of Canada/or more than one province
Exclusive Powers of Provincial Legislatures
The exclusive powers of Provincial legislatures include the following:
- Direct Taxation within Province
- Management/Sale of Public Lands belonging to Province
- Prisons
- Hospitals
- Municipalities
- Formalization of Marriage
- Property and Civil Rights
- Administration of Civil/Criminal Justice
- Education
- Incorporation of Companies
- Natural Resources
- Matters of a merely local or private nature
Concurrent/Shared Powers
Concurrent powers are:
- Old age pensions Immigration
- Agriculture
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