Federalism and the Myth of the Federal Spending Power, by Andrew Petter, Dean, University of Victoria Law School, British Columbia

The Federal Spending Power in Canada: Nation-Building or Nation-Destroying?, by Hamish Telford, Ph.D.

Federal Spending Power, Fiscal Imbalance, and Risks to Health Care and Education, 1998-99 British Columbia Budget Report F, British Columbia Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations

Quebec's Historical Position on the Federal Spending Power, 1944 to 1998, by the Secrétariat aux Affaires intergouvernementales canadiennes, Direction des politiques institutionnelles et constitutionnelles, Ministère du Conseil exécutif, Quebec

A New Division of Canada's Financial Resources, 2002 Final Report of the Quebec Commission on Fiscal Imbalance (a.k.a. the "Séguin Commission")

The Spending Power: Scope and Limitations Prepared by: Mollie Dunsmuir Law and Government Division, Library of Parliament, Parliamentary Research Branch, October 1991

A Framework to Improve the Social Union for Canadians, Signed 4 February, 1999 by all governments except that of Quebec

Canada: Love It or Don't Leave It! (re: the 1999 Social Union for Canadians), in the Institute for Research on Public Policy's publication, Policy Options (Jan.-Feb. 2000) by Alain Nöel

Restoring the Federal Principle: the Place of Quebec in the Canadian Social Union, by Christian Dufour, in the Institute for Research on Public Policy's publication, Policy Matters (Jan. 2002)

The Paradox of the Social Union Framework Agreement, by John Richards, C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder No. 59, March 2002.