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A Policy for the Government of Saskatchewan's International Relations
出版Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2005
主題History / Social History
ISBN07731052639780773105263
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2s4SPQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Since the benchmark decision of the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council in 1937, the international relations of Canadian provinces are not left solely in the hands of the Canadian government in Ottawa. [...] Since 1909, the Canadian Federal Government has adopted the first of these two models and centralized its international activities in a Department of External Affairs.... What it does mean is that the international activities of the Federal Government have been perceived to have reached such a level of importance that it is necessary to develop a cadre of centrally-located specialists to deal with t [...] As each project arises for the two public servants in the Intergovernmental Affairs Unit of the Executive Council (or Cabinet), a department which might be expected to coordinate the activities of all the other departments in this area, they prepare background material in order to orient the minister involved, and the overall objective is only to minimize any adverse effects on the Saskatchewan go [...] That is, although the courts have ruled that provincial governments have the legal responsibility for the international aspects of the duties enumerated in Section 92 of the Constitution Act, the Government of Saskatchewan would request that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa undertake this for Saskatchewan. [...] International Relations is inexpensive, being estimated to cost the citizens of Saskatchewan only $916,000 in 2005-06, and the cost is simply an accepted part of the annual estimates of the Department of Government Relations.26 Of course, a more accurate financial reckoning would have to include the hours spent by those public servants in the line departments who are called upon from time to time.