Territories of Canada

Canada, officially the Canadian Republic (French: République canadienne), is a federal parliamentary republic which, in addition to 13 provinces and a federal capital district, consists of five territories, autonomous administrative divisions each of which has its own territorial government with devolved authority from the Parliament of Canada. Territories differ from provinces in that their autonomy, by nature of deriving from the process of devolution, is unilateral and can thus be revoked at the unilateral instigation of the Parliament of Canada; provinces, on the other hand, share sovereignty equally with the Canadian federal government and cannot be altered or abolished unilaterally according to Canadian constitutional law.