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No national standards required
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Nov. 14, 2010
Instead of centralization, devolution of policy and service delivery, as a recent Mowat Centre report argued, can help strengthen the Canadian federation. Should Canadians fret about the government’s inability to unilaterally impose national standards? The short answer is no. Highly comparable social policies and programs can and do emerge across the provinces without imposition of mandatory and uniform rules… First, provinces need access to reliable and sufficient funds to act in their constitutionally-recognized policy areas.
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