The Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems or Tremblay Commission was called for by the premier of

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

Maurice Duplessis Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis (; April 20, 1890 – September 7, 1959), was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec. A conservative, nationalist, anti-Communist, anti-unionist and fervent Catholic, he and hi ...

in 1953. The commission, chaired by Mr. Justice

Thomas Tremblay Thomas Tremblay, (December 13, 1895 – April 24, 1988) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge. Born in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Quebec, Tremblay received his secondary education at Collège Ste-Anne de La Pocatière. He received a Ba ...

, studied the problem of tax sharing between different levels of government and greater constitutional problems in Canada. The commission held 97 public meetings throughout Quebec, received 217 briefs, launched several studies and finally published a five-volume report in 1956. It proposed a maximum level of

taxation A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal person, legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regiona ...

be established, the provincial responsibility for unemployment benefits, and a shared personal and corporate tax scheme between the federal and provincial governments.

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Index to Federal Royal Commissions
Constitutional commissions Royal commissions in Canada Constitution of Canada Quebec nationalism 1956 documents History of Canada (1945–1960) 1956 in Canada {{constitutional-law-stub