Political Science 2246E Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cabinet Collective Responsibility
6 Nov 2016
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The central executive in canadian government: the central executive is the fulcrum of governance in the cabinet- parliamentary system. As such, it is an appropriate focus for public administration: the central executive refers to the collective political and non-political elements of the executive who are engaged in generating and coordinating central policy. A third area of federal and provincial similarity relates to the conventions of cabinet government, most notably those involving cabinet formation, individual responsibility and collective responsibility. Provincial cabinets have made significant contributions to establishing the parameters of the venerable, once thought absolute, convention of cabinet secrecy: to the elected house, collective responsibility is as much a provincial convention as a federal one. Federal-provincial differences: one difference is the degree to which the size of the cabinet can be and is used as a control mechanism in the provincial context. Is also a difference between federal and provincial cabinets.
