the rights of the several provinces to exercise control in those areas designated as being under provincial jurisdiction in the British North America Act.
- 1882  The future may be made more secure by a better consideration of provincial rights in the exercise of federal rights.
- 1916  It was in Quebec that the first issue as to provincial rights arose.
- 1953  Litigation was almost constant between the Macdonald administration and Mowat's Ontario government over the question of "provincial rights."