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PM seeks Supreme Court’s advice on constitutionality of plan to create national securities regulator

This reference comes at a time when sovereignty has been steadily running out of steam; it will be a test of the recent resilience of federalism in Quebec.

MONTREAL—By seeking the advice of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of his plan to create a national securities regulator, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is really asking the country's top court to affirm the federal leadership of Canada's economic union.

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