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So is the Canadian Federal and Provincial governments.

• notacoward 11y ago
  Not to the same degree. In Canada the default is federal primacy, with specific powers delegated to the provinces - "merely local or private" in the constitution, 16 specific subject areas in the Constitution Act of 1867, federally-appointed lieutenant governors' powers of disallowance and reservation. In the US state primacy is the default, with specific powers delegated the other way by our own constitution. The in-practice truth is much messier than that, of course, but this difference in basic philosophy and constitutional phrasing puts the two on opposite sides of an important line.