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history: consists of unwritten and written acts, customs, judicial decisions, and traditions dating from 1763; the written part of the constitution consists of the Constitution Act of 29 March 1867, which created a federation of four provinces, and the Constitution Act of 17 April 1982
- The American Revolution and United Empire Loyalists
- Reciprocity Between Canada and The United States
- American Civil War and Canada
- Canadian Migration to The United States
- The Second World War
- The Vietnam War and Canada
- Canada and The Free Trade Agreement
- The United States and Canadian Territorial Sovereignty
- Differences and Similarities Between Canada and The United States
When the United Empire Loyalists fled the vengeance of the winning side in the American Revolution(1775 – 83) and came to the British colonies north of the line, they brought with them a distaste for what they saw as excesses of democracy, even mobocracy, that had dispossessed them. At the same time, they brought with them a host of American attitu...
American ideas, attitudes, models and failures shaped the very nature of Canada. So, too, did a combination of fear and profit. Reciprocity, a free tradeagreement between the United States and Canada, was in effect from 1854 to 1866. The first treaty, signed in 1854, had been demanded by merchants frightened by the loss of previously assured market...
When the Civil War, fought between the northern (Union) states and the southern (Confederate) states, racked the American Republic from 1861 to 1865 and increased tension between the British and American governments, the 1854 treaty was a casualty (see American Civil War and Canada). Indeed, so great was the ill-feeling between the governments that...
For many Canadians, the major attractive force of the United States was greater opportunity. Thanks to the high tariff that protected Canadian manufacturers, the cost of living was always higher in Canada than in the United States. Tens of thousands of Canadians immigrated to the United States each decade in search of greater opportunity for themse...
This was particularly evident once the United States rose to globalism and superpower status during and after the Second World War(WWII) (1939-45) The idealism of the United States - demonstrated, for example, in the Lend-Lease Act that had given the Allies the munitions and supplies to win WWII and the Marshall Plan that had helped so greatly to r...
The Vietnam War was the classic example, a war so dreadful in its effects on the American polity that draft dodgers and military deserters by the thousands sought and found sanctuary in Canada, along with thousands of ordinary American men and women. For the first time, the flow of immigrationfrom the south to the north exceeded that of Canada to t...
Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives moved toward a Free Tradeagreement with the United States in 1985. Tariffs, as has been noted, were generally low between the two countries, but nontariff barriers (such as those that favour the price of domestic wines over California vintages) were prevalent, subsidies were employed by both to protect wea...
Still, Canadian sovereignty over the nation's territory was secure. Or was it? The United States had never recognized Canada's sovereignty over the arctic waterways and islands, and during the Second World War, American military operations in the North, undertaken with the full consent of Ottawa, had blossomed to such an extent that the federal gov...
Canadians like to insist on the differences between the two countries. Gun control laws and the public health-care system help to set Canada apart from its neighbour. In 2003 the Canadian refusal to join the United States in going to war in Iraq suggested diverging approaches toward international affairs. The differences seemed all the more pronoun...
One remarkable truth of the Canadian and United States federalisms is that each country has departed from the original understanding of the distribution of federal power as expressed in the Constitution.
- Martha A. Field
- 1992
Each state has its own constitution, which may not conflict with the US constitution, but may contain provisions, such as an explicit right of privacy, a right to know (about government) and a means for citizens to exercise legislative authority through initiative and referenda.
Canada repatriated its constitution from the UK in 1982, severing a final colonial tie. Economically and technologically, the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the south across the world's longest international border.
Mar 9, 2009 · In Canada, it is known as the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). Trump’s presidency forced the Canadian government, particularly Prime Minister Trudeau, to practice some delicate diplomacy. On the one hand, the prime minister had to avoid offending the notoriously thin-skinned president.
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Apr 5, 2010 · While there are fundamental differences in founding ideas and historical legacies, there are major similarities between these two federations. We conclude this analysis by underlining the value of comparison.
