POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Minority Government, Responsible Government, Majority Government
11 Feb 2016
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House of commons (lower) and the senate. Representation- representation by population and representation by region. Making governments- can"t have a government without a. Deliberations- constant deliberation between government and legislator opposition. Elected lower house which is the member of parliament in the house of commons, appointed upper house which is the senate. 3 parts of house of commons . Executive (prime minister and cabin- group of minister chosen by the pm for different departments, right now harper"s government has 39 cabin ministers) government) Back bench (members of parliament that have no specific role) Opposition (members of the parliament who are not apart of the. Representative government- we rely on the representation of to redistribute the seats because of the population growth parliament. Controversy is the senators are appointed by the prime minister. Half true because we should have a say in who the senators are.
