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Canadian Political Science Association2025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College, Toronto, CANADA
June 3 to June 5, 20252025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College
June 3 to June 5, 2025
Provincial and Territorial Politics in Canada and Beyond
J19 - Roundtable: State of the Federation 2025 (3 of 3)
Date: Jun 5 | Time: 01:45pm to 03:15pm | Location:
Chair/Président/Présidente : Nadia Verrelli (Laurentian University)
Discussant/Commentateur/Commentatrice : Julie Simmons - (University of Guelph)
Dagmar Soennecken (York University)Chadwick Cowie (University of Toronto)
Janique Dubois (University of Ottawa)
Minh Do (University of Guelph)
Adrienne Davidson (McMaster University)
Jennifer Wallner (University of Ottawa)
Peter Graefe (McMaster University )
Olivier Jacques (University of Montreal )
Abstract: In recent years, there has been a rise of provincial rights narratives in various regions of the country. At the same time, perhaps more so than in the past, settler Canadians and governments are attuned to the moral authority of Indigenous rights narratives. This volume considers how principles of federalism are reflected and refracted, in the light of these two dynamics, both of which are unfolding in an era of unprecedented social policy expansion. It seeks to explore how these two discourses and movements interact: are there instances where one serves as a counterpoint to the other? How are they possibly complementary? How have they affected social policy expansion? There are a total of 3 roundtables Roundtable 3: Institutional Stretching How are the institutions to manage the operation of federal principles in Canada (eg. The courts; executive federalism) being called to adapt, or being utilized by Indigenous rights and provincial rights asserters and defenders in Canada? If we take as a starting point, that institutions are not “neutral vessels” for the argument of points of rights and points of view, but rather, imbued with certain understandings about whose voices are legitimate in the first place, what is the way forward for these institutions in the functioning of the federation? Contributions include activity of the Supreme Court and Section 33, the Council of the Federation, or executive federalism more generally and the role of Indigenous peoples within or apart from it.