POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Lunch Meat, Parliamentary System
19 Jan 2018
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Parliamentary system: legislature: canada"s which is medium sized is multimember- Senate and house of commons: biggest leg: china 3000 smallest leg: micronesia 14, functions: house of commons: mp"s represent (elected), When he felt he had passed all the bills he needed to. To do this harper must ceremoniously ask the governor general for permission but the governor general is appointed on suggestion of the pm so the only time gg has said no to a pm dissolving parliament was the king. Therefore, ministers tend to be very unaware of what is happening in their department. Minister of agricuture was blamed for people dying after eating maple. Leaf cold cuts, in a press conference he made a joke of the deaths. When he was questioned he was very unaware of what was happening in his department. House of reps and senate to get it passed.
