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iament. The current 1982 the constitution provides for the amendment of the specific procedures, it confirms to amend the constitution in the process of the four steps, the first step, amendments must have passed by both houses and in all the provinces of the legislature passed, and this gives each province a veto. The second step, amendments must have passed by both houses and then by two thirds of the provincial legislature passed, and ask the provinces in the whole province at least half of the total population in favor of, through the amendment of the seven provinces must include or Mr Terry in Quebec's a. The third step, handle affairs involving a province or several provinces (not all province) by the senate, the house of representatives must be amendment, special province or related province of the legislature or lawmakers to pass. Fourth step, by the Canadian parliament amendments to the ordinary bill make and become. Therefore, the Canadian constitution in some degree is considered flexible constitution, because some amendment by Canada's parliament is ordinary bill composition. But, as the first step to the third step program determines the provinces and amendment is closely related to the design process, thus it is rigid constitution,.

Three) of a federal constitution.

1867's "the British North America act and subsequent amendment in Canada established a federal system of national structure, which is mainly embodied in the following facts:

1, national power are divided into the central government and the provincial government dominion power, provincial government attributable to the special legislative control, and the legislative list. A dominion (central) have lists of other special outside the legislative power.

2, a dominion (central) and provincial government in the power of the personnel is different, as long as it is the constitution involved, the central and provincial may change 3, Canada's Supreme Court is central and provincial jurisdiction of the disputes final authority, including that of final adjudication, enjoy, which showed that the constitution's sovereign status, and this is the one of the main features of the constitution.

4, the main part of the constitution of the fixed no consent of the provinces to agree is not changed.

Although is a federal, but strong centralized tendency can also see, it is mainly through the fact that obvious:

1) the power of the classification of the scheme shows that it in enlarge the power.

2) a dominion (central) beyond each provincial government wide powers of government. The governor of the bill for the governor from within a year after, can veto province bill, this gives the governor a veto.

3) government appointed and dismiss the deputy governor provinces, and appointed deputy governor of the province bill approval revoked or by the governor agreed to keep the governor think right, can not agree (refused to) he agreed to keep the bill.

4) important judicial RenMingQuan gave the central.

5) the senate members from prime minister appointed. And the United States is different, every province of Canada in the senate and does not have the equal representatives. In other words, the senate is not their interests of the defenders.