POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tyrant, Brian Mulroney, Elections Canada
26 Oct 2016
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Politics and society in canada: the house and the senate. It is not comprised of house but two houses: 1) house of commons, 2) senate. A. k. a. the (cid:862)lower house(cid:863: be(cid:272)ause we are lower people; whereas the (cid:862)house of lords(cid:863)/se(cid:374)ate is for the aristocrats. A. k. a. the (cid:862)confidence chamber(cid:863: government always needs to maintain the confidence of the house of commons. There are 338 me(cid:373)(cid:271)ers of parlia(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:894)mp"s(cid:895) i(cid:374) the house: each seat corresponds with a single electoral district (i. e. scarborough-rouge. River: everyone sits in the same seat unless they have been removed, the electoral districts are spread across the country in approximate accordance with the pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iple of (cid:862)representation by population(cid:863) (cid:894)a. k. a. The idea that the amount of representation that a group should have should be in accordance to the population size of that group. The population of ontario should have more representation than prince edward island. However, this is not the case for the senate.
