Library

Constitutional Powers of the Provinces

• Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982
• The constitutional distribution of legislative powers (Privy Council Office)

Federal Programs and Services

• Intergovernmental Affairs (Privy Council Office)
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Federal/Provincial/Territorial agreements (FPT) 

Intergovernmental/Federal-Provincial-Territorial Relations

(See also under each province for individual provincial or territorial intergovernmental relations.)

• Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment

• Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat News releases and documents from federal-provincial-territorial conferences.

• Council of Atlantic Premiers includes Newsroom with press releases
• Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG/ECP) Newsroom
• Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
• Council of the Federation (organization created by the Premiers in 2003) includes News releases
• Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (Queen's University School of Policy Studies) a university-based centre for research on all aspects of federalism and intergovernmental relations, both in Canada and in countries around the world.
• New West Partnership Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan launched the New West Partnership April 30, 2010
• Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) is a public-private partnership chartered by the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington; the western Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan and the territories of Yukon and Northwest Territories
• Western Premiers' Conference (this Conference is held annually but has no central website; search for each year individually on the Canadian Intergovernmental Conferences Secretariat website)
  • 2012 Conference, Edmonton, Alberta
  • 2011 Conference, Whitehorse, Northwest Territories 
  • 2010 Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 2009 Conference, Dawson City, Yukon

History of Federal-Provincial-Territorial Relations

• Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations, 1937-1940 (Rowell-Sirois Commission, Canadian Encyclopedia). See the Report and background research Studies on all areas of federal-provincial economic relations.
• Federal-Provincial Relations, by Jack Stilborn and Robert B. Asselin. (Library of Parliament, 2001)
• History of federal-provincial relations (via Privy Council Office)