POLI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pierre Trudeau, Charlottetown Accord
14 Sep 2016
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Poli221 issues in governing canada continued lecture notes. What are its essential elements or components: understanding of the electoral system, basic elements of each essential institution and their components, relationships within an institution and between institutions. Specifically, why does it play the role it does in the political process: what are the political aspects that transformed the relationship, eg. Governor general much more powerful figure from 1867. The role of the gg changed significantly, became much more like the monarch. The constitution of canada has been, from 1867 onward, an arrangement between elites, particularly between political elite. Constitutions are normally arrangements between people and their governments canada may be the only country where the primary role of the constitution is to maintain peace between governments rather than between people, or between the people and their governments pg. Between political elites: between pillars of the federal government.
