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The Nature of Canadian Federalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

John Eaton
John Eaton
Affiliation:
Librarian & Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba And immediate Past President of the Canadian Association of Law Librarians.
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Extract

There is little sense in launching into a discussion of the nature of Canadian federalism to a non-Canadian audience without first providing a thumbnail sketch of Canadian history to provide some context for that discussion.

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Research Article
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Legal Information Management , Volume 3 , Issue 3-4 , Winter 2003 , pp. 166 - 171
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2003

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