Whitcomb: When we celebrate Confederation, what do we celebrate?

Millions of Canadians are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Confederation, but what is it all about?
 • Confederation consisted of two elements. In March 1864, the Province of Canada adopted a federal system of government in which the new provinces of Ontario and Quebec would be “exclusively” responsible for things such as health, education and local matters and the new central government would be responsible for everything else. At the Charlottetown Conference in Septem