here I go, on my own; don't need nobody, not anybody I'm doing research today for one of my papers due next week. This one is for Canadian Political History and the paper topic is sort of a federalism debate from the days of Confederation.

"Why were the fathers of Confederation strong federalists in the 1860s and why did Ontario rebel against this role in the 1880s? What does this conflict tell us about the nature of Canada? Where do you stand in the centralist vs decentralist debate?"

It's interesting to note that the premier of Ontario back then, Oliver Mowat, had a serious conflict with John A. Macdonald over who had authority over what. We forget, in these days of conflicts between Alberta and Ottawa or Quebec and Ottawa, that back in the day, even the province of Ontario took issue with the claim to broad federal power in Confederation.  | ¶ 2:12 p.m.