POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Primary And Secondary Legislation, Comptroller, Bicameralism
10 Jan 2018
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Pols 2300 canadian government and politics october 5th, 2017. Canadian legislature: canada has a total of 14 legislatures, parliament, most recognized in ottawa, each province and territory has a legislature, located in its capital city, practices generally follow those of the federal house of commons. Legislative institutions: the chamber, the forum where elected officials convene to discuss the issue of the day, opposing parties sit of opposites sides of the chamber, they debate and vote. Controlling legislative behaviour: party discipline, party whip individual member responsible for ensuring caucus members to the party, party leaders control, what partisans can speak about publicly, which parliamentarians may ask questions in legislature, appointment to legislative committees, Deployment of party resources, sanctions, demotions, ejections of members. Laws are created, changed and repealed after public debate and scrutiny: bill a piece of draft legislation tabled in the legislature, private bills, public bills (government bills, private member bills), omnibus legislation.
