Opting out
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title:
Opting out
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Opting out is a political expression that was formulated in Canada to describe the intention of a province to remove itself from a program administered by the federal government, or to exempt itself from a constitutional amendment that would transfer its legislative powers to Parliament. Up until the 1960s, a province that did not participate in a shared-cost program would suffer a financial penalty for exercising this choice. The province of Quebec exercised this choice on occasion despite the
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Refusal by a Canadian provincial government to be part of a federal program
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opting_out
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2021-09-11T05:30:02Z
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