[Alberta's Child]

Great post. In terms of the division of power between the federal and state/provincial governments, Canada functions today the way the U.S. would have functioned if the Confederacy had won the Civil War.

[Hieronymus]

Thanks. I forget who first pointed out to me the size of Canada making it ungovernable, but it might have been someone on this board from Zambia—the other leading person is a former boss of mine, a Canadian who spent his academic life teaching U.S. history.