Not to the same degree.  In Canada the default is federal primacy, with specific powers delegated to the provinces - &quot;merely local or private&quot; in the constitution, 16 specific subject areas in the Constitution Act of 1867, federally-appointed lieutenant governors&#x27; powers of disallowance and reservation.  In the US state primacy is the default, with specific powers delegated the other way by our own constitution.  The in-practice truth is much messier than that, of course, but this difference in basic philosophy and constitutional phrasing puts the two on opposite sides of an important line.