POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Responsible Government, Speech From The Throne, Pierre Trudeau
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Pol214 s1 l5: constitution foundations: responsible government: the canadian constitution is a mixture of written and unwritten elements. The bna act created the parliament of canada and is the written component. Through the conventions of responsible government; these conventions are a part of the unwritten parts of the constitution. They are sworn into the queen"s privy council. Power is exercised by pm and his/her cabinet in the name of the crown, not in the name of the. But under the conventions of responsible government, the pm and his/her ministers only hold power cause of their con dence of the house of commons. The pm tells the gg that he then must tell the opposition party leader to form a government to replace them and then the. Britain: we created canada out of nothing and then britain wanted to mix the unwritten conventions with the written ones; this caused a problem.
