ontrol over things that were viewed as being less important in 1867. Issues such as health care, hospitals, schools and private property that were given over to the provinces, have now become the most significant topics in political debate.
             Federal systems of government have been used to bring together divers peoples, uniting them towards a common cause despite divisive lines across languages, cultures, and religions. Regions that would not normally be drawn together are combined without the impetus of a dictator or authoritarian rule. Federalism is unique in being "the main alternative to empire as a technique for aggregating larger areas under one government". Such is the case in Canada where the British Upper-Canadians, the
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