“…For other defenses of multinational federations embracing the cultural autonomy only view, seeRequejo 2004Requejo , 2012De Schutter 2011. Some proponents of multinational federalism have nonetheless defended fiscal autonomy more explicitly: seeHarty and Murphy 2005;Seymour and Gagnon 2012, Gagnon 2014, Mathieu 2017, Guénette and Mathieu 2018). As mentioned above, Béland and Lecours have established a strong connection between minority nationalism and social policy(Béland and Lecours 2006).8 Trudeau, Pierre Elliott (1969), Federal-Provincial Grants and the Spending Power of Parliament, Government of Canada, 4, quoted in Telford, 2003, 25.…”