POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Brian Mulroney
5 Dec 2016
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In canada, when the formal executive exercises their ceremonial functions, 99% of the time they are doing so on the advice of the prime minister (and cabinet) There was a scandal involving iceland"s prime minister he and his wife showed up on the list of people who had bank accounts in panama. This is not illegal nor is it the actual problem at hand however, it was illegal for him to hide that fact (he was supposed to disclose where his money was) He got caught hiding his money, and potentially not paying taxes with that money this was in violation of iceland"s conflict of interest laws. A non-confidence vote over the pm was scheduled, which he almost certainly would have lost. The president said no, letting the pm face parliament the pm instead immediately resigned. The last time anything like this happened in canada was in 1926 the key players were.
