POLI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Premiership Of Stephen Harper, Leadership Review, Unintended Consequences
8 Aug 2016
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The house was supposed to be a check, cabinet makes up the collective government. Cabinet was an original check on the pm, who has always been the most powerful person in cabinet. It was supposed to be a collective government/collegial government. We"ve moved to prime ministerial government rather than cabinet government. We have presidential government- the pm has become a president. Has more power than the president in the usa. Loss of power in terms of checks- british government was a check through the governor general but her powers have increasingly gone to the pm. House of commons lost power in its way to check on the pm. Senate was supposed to be equal and a check but it is inferior house within parliament. Federal system and the courts- power has shifted to the pm but maybe power could be reversed. The division of powers was created to be a check.
