Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, and the constitution can be reimagined to resolve the mismatch between powers and responsibilities.
Authors
Alexandra Flynn, Alan Broadbent, Richard Albert, Nathalie Des Rosiers
- Published in
- Montreal, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- CITIES AND THE CONSTITUTION 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Tables 8
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgments 14
- Introduction 18
- PART ONE | CONSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION: NEW PATHS TO MUNICIPAL AUTONOMY 30
- 1 From City Autonomy to the Metagovernance of Place 34
- 2 Cities and the Promise of Equalization 58
- 3 Getting Rid of the Laundry List: Exploring the Roots and Effects of the Municipal Powers Act in Quebec 80
- PART TWO | CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES: SUBSIDIARITY 104
- 4 Subsidiarity as a Tool of Municipal Empowerment 108
- 5 Constitutionalizing Cities: Realizing Government Agendas or Sites for Denizen Engagement? 133
- 6 Operative Subsidiarity and Indigenous-Municipal Legal Relationships 154
- PART THREE | CONSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION: NEW PATHS TO CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 174
- 7 The Possibility of Constitutional Amendment for Municipal Empowerment 177
- 8 A Constitutional Safeguard for Municipalities: Entrenching Protections for Local Democracy 199
- 9 Constitutional Amendment and the Canadian City 216
- PART FOUR | THE POTENTIAL OF PROVINCIAL CONSTITUTIONS 240
- 10 Are Canadian Cities Entrenched in Provincial Constitutions? A Question of Political Constitutionalism 242
- 11 Moving Beyond the “Creatures of the Provinces” Doctrine: Exploring Pathways to Municipal Empowerment in Provincial Constitutions 258
- Contributors 288
- Index 294
