Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
* A paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association at Ottawa on 8 June 1967. The text has been revised in detail but not in substance and does not take account of major developments in federal-provincial or Ottawa-Quebec relations since June 1967. The author wishes to acknowledge the very direct and substantial contribution of his colleague, Edgar Gallant, director of the Federal-Provincial Relations Division of the Department of Finance, to the development and presentation of the ideas contained in this paper.