Sentences with phrase «watertight compartments»

It is based on the discredited «watertight compartments» theory of federalism where the federal and provincial governments exercise their legislative powers without regard for each other's interests.

For example, the Titanic was constructed of high - grade steel, with a series of watertight compartments.

The Court signalled in Canadian Western Bank v Alberta, 2007 SCC 22 (CanLII), that generally the use of the doctrine should be minimized since it is redolent of more rigid approaches to constitutional law that favour «watertight compartments» rather than the more modern cooperative federalism approach.

The Titanic, by swerving to avoid the iceberg, suffered a fatal blow that sliced opened the starboard side for approximately one third of her length and compromised the integrity of five of her 16 watertight compartments.

Fifteen transverse bulkheads divided her hull into 16 watertight compartments with doors that were controlled electrically.

Although it is still useful to employ the «Pentecostal» and «historic» terminology, these should be seen not as two watertight compartments but as ideal types at the two extremes of a continuum on which most real cases are a highly variable and creative mix.

The two areas are watertight compartments with respect to ideas, values, and institutions.

It was the enlightenment that divided subjects up into watertight compartments, giving us chemistry, sociology, botanty and the like.

And yet, as the B.C. - Alberta pipeline spat illustrates, conceiving of those powers as hermetically sealed, watertight compartments is hardly conducive to a functioning federation.

The liner's bow crumpled back against the ship, destroying the first watertight compartment and giving her passengers and crew a rude shock.

Not exact matches

In the Supreme Court of Canada's Tsilhqot «in decision (para 148) they said: «Interjurisdictional immunity — premised on a notion that regulatory environments can be divided into watertight jurisdictional compartments — is often at odds with modern reality.

And then there's that huge, lockable, and watertight storage compartment underneath the 5.3 - foot bed, a well that also features a drain plug, making it a perfect, albeit uninsulated, cooler for beverages and food when tailgating.