n general, the federal Parliament has responsibility for policies and activities that affect the whole of Canada, such as banking, criminal law, national defence, and citizenship
Other areas of federal jurisdiction include: trade and commerce; direct and indirect taxation; currency; the postal service; the census and statistics; national defence; the federal civil service; navigation; fisheries; banking; copyright; Indigenous peoples and reserves;citizenship; marriage and divorce; criminal law; prisons; and interprovincial works.