POL336Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Provincial Rights Party, Bicameralism, Heir Apparent
15 Nov 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Pol336 lecture 8: westminster model in ontario(part 1) Mowat"s legacy: recap: key player in ensuring british-style parliamentary democracy prevails at canadian provincial levels, key contributor to various judicial decisions: established within authoritative sphere under. Decisions ensuring british-style parliamentary democracy would ourish in canada, despite written texts of bna act. [ontario will push envelope of authority, waiting for ottawa to do something while in meantime will form alliances with other provinces] Westminster model in ontario: ontario: bna act created lg & executive council (actually premier + cabinet) to advise him / her (s. 63/65, ontario legislature: consisted of lg + legislative assembly (s. 69) Assembly created with 82 members which is same # of ontario mps in canada"s. Bna act: empowered provincial govt. increasing # of elected members after 1867 and ontario provincial elections would be every 4 years, later changed to 5 years. No senate: before confederation, all bna legislatures were bicameral mimicking.
