0 a political region or local government area in some countries, especially one of the 23 political regions into which Switzerland is divided --
The fault lies with the two chefs de canton.
The more centralized a canton in fiscal terms, the larger will be the public sector.
Since the customs barriers between the twenty-two cantons had been eliminated, moreover, new connections among remote regions of the country started to emerge.
Above all, the canton and its adjacent territory to the south-east constituted an early industrial district that combined several types of work producing textiles.
It is taught not only as the idiom of a neighbouring canton but also as a medium for internal communication between the different language groups.
Since 1965, legislation has required the cantons and communes to pay supplementary benefits to those whose old-age pensions are insufficient to cover their basic needs.
This justifies the treatment of the cantons as sovereign units in this analysis.
This non-decision has settled the issue at the federal level, but it is bound to come up again in the cantons.
