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On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 08:00:21 +0000, Charles Packer wrote:

> The looseness of the Canadian federation is a surprise to me. But it's
> not a surprise that I didn't know about it until now.
> American journalism is deficient in explicating the varieties of
> parliamentary democracy.

It is true that the United States may be viewed as insular.

But the Canadian federation is much less loose than that of the United
States. In the United States, the laws against basic crimes like murder
are enacted by the individual states; in Canada, the criminal law is
a Federal responsibility, but the individual provinces do have authority
over their own civil law.

John Savard