POLI 1119 Lecture Notes - Michael Chong
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Exercises the right to advise the crown. After an election, the outgoing pm will advise the. Crown on who the next pm will be. Either maintain current pm or appoint new pm. The pm only has one vote, he has no more legal authority than any other member of cabinet. Even if in the cabinet meeting, they disagree with the decision, if the decision is made by cabinet then everyone adheres to that. If not, then the member resigns although this is rare. Michael chong resigning because he disagreed with a policy. Monetary sanctions cannot be used against the. Cabinet minister (quitting but will retain salary); there is no economic incentive to stay. No formal hierarchy, but in reality pm, finance minister and. Dpm weakest of the three, not the vice-pm; rather they are there to generally act as duality (eg. if pm only speaks english, dpm will be french-speaking)
