POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Presidential System, Minority Government, North American Free Trade Agreement
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Possible election outcomes: majority government, minority government, coalition government, if no party holds the majority of the seats, the largest party decides what to do. The only party that can spend that amount is the conservative party. The liberal party will spend about 30 million and ndp has even less and so do the. Harper plans to exhaust the rest of the parties resources so the. Conservatives are the only one who can afford to keep campaigning. Problems of parliamentarism: no separation of powers, opposition has little influence, more unstable, governments fall constantly, for ex. Italy has had 63 governments, and they fall every year. It takes a long time to form a government after an election: unexpected coalitions. If the senate refuses to act, it can persuade the government that it needs to go to the public to get a mandate: for ex.
