books.google.ca - At the close of their 44th annual conference in July 2003, Canadian premiers unveiled a five-point plan "to build a new era of constructive and cooperative federalism." The premiers' ambitious proposals - which included the creation of a Council of the Federation - and their assertion that, "the current...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Forging_the_Canadian_Social_Union.html?id=QNYbEPjWK74C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareForging the Canadian Social Union