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The discussion uses Premier Brian Peckford’s challenge to federal legislative jurisdiction over the Newfoundland fishery to clarify how federal states manage competing domestic concerns. 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constitutional reform figures prominentlyin the recent responses of governments and concerned individuals toperceived strains within the Canadian federal structure.¹A future forQuebec in Confederation and fiscal imbalances arising from the benefitsof oil diplomacy accruing to the province of Alberta are seen as dominantissues in a constitutional crisis for which a greater structural decentraliza-tion of Canadian federalism appeals as the only apparent recoursecapable of preventing the country from blowing apart.One furtherexample of this general trend has emerged in Premier Brian Peckford'sstrident challenge to federal legislative jurisdiction extending over theNewfoundland fishery.While to some this may seem a trivial chapter inthe overall constitutional debate,it illustrates with clarity an importantproposition concerning the character of federal states which most of the  \n*Assistant Professor of Law.University of Windsor.This article is a revisedversion of a paper prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a degreeprogram at the Harvard Law School.Funding for further research was provided througha block grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario.I wish to thank Paul Werler,RonaldIanni and Gerard La Forest for helpful criticism and support along the way Errors thatremain are mine alone.  \n'E.g..THE TASK FoRCE ON CANADIAN UNITY.A FUTt'RE ToGETHER(1979),CANADIAN BAR AsSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON THE CoNSTITUTION.TowARDS A NEWCANADA(1978):GOVERNMENT OF QUEBEC.QUEBEC-CANADA:A NEw DA1(1979),THE CoNSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE QUEBEC LIBERA1 PARTY.A NEW CANADIASFEDERATION(1980):GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH CoLCMBIA.CoNSTITUTIONAI PROPOS-ALS.presented to the First Ministers'Conference on the Constitution.October.1978,GoVERNMENT OF CANADA.THE CoNSTITU'TIONAL.AMENDMFNT B111.TEXT ANDEXPLANATORY NoTES(Bill C-60.3rd Sess..30th Parl.(Ist reading June 20.1978)).Forcritical comment on some of the above.see Beaudoin.La phulosophte Constttuton·nelle'\"du Rapport Pepin-Robarts.57 CAN.B.REV.429(1979);Dupré &Weiler,ASense of Proportion and a Sense of Priorties:Reflectons on the Report of the TuskForce on Canadian Unity.id.at 446:La Forest.Towards a New Canada:The C'anadtanBar Association's Report on the Constitution.id.at 493;Scott.Bill C-60.Or.How Notto Drafi a Constitution.id.at 587:Lederman.Constiruttonal Amendment and C'anadtanUnity.in LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA.SPECIALLECTURES 17(1978).  \ndebate tends to either neglect or ignore.I argue that internal accommoda-tions to competing domestic concerns within a federal compromise mustbe balanced against inhibiting dependencies external to the state,whichsuggest strongly that certain spheres of jurisdiction are properlymanageable only through the central government and related nationalinstitutions.  \nThe basic premise of this essay proceeds from the notion of a state asa subject of international law²and that within this rubric of internationalrecognition,[a]federal state shall constitute a sole person in the eyes ofinternational law”.3 In practical terms,federal states are characteristi-cally if not exclusively unitary entities for purposes of meeting theoutside world.⁴In Canada,the idea of a unitary international personalitycurrently exhibits signs of considerable wear and tear as the severalprovinces led by Quebec have increasingly asserted individualizedpresences abroad,⁵but the exceptions still prove rather than refute thegeneral rule.  \nAbstract notions are best articulated where possible throughconcrete examples.Fisheries is both a good example and an importantone.Government analysts have predicted that with proper managementof fisheries and good marketing initiative,Canada has the potential tobecome the world’s largest exporter of fish by 1985.⁶Even without such  \n2 The concept of statehood in international law was set forth in the Conven","cbCaicgE7wwDLXsr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicgE7wwDLXsr","pdf",4044764,62,"English","# I. 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