POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Minority Government, Majority Government, Presidential System
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Parties spending limit used to be 25 million, now at 11 weeks election: Conservations have m spending money because they"ve been in power for longer. Ndp has a little less than liberal 2342 The rest of the parties have much less. Parliamentary system = unitary system of government (don"t vote for prime minister) Largest opposition in canada: the official opposition (the opposition) dan. Parliamentary system, senate is the upper half senators are in power for life (75 years) Harper has appointed 59/100 senators in the senate. Areas of u. s influence (philippines, south korea, latin america) People vote for senators and for members of congress and separate for the. President runs for people"s votes, not a member of congress. Each branch of government has it"s own political mandate. President has complete own power; has own power to veto the veto. President has the power to appoint the cabinet from amongst anyone he wishes. Amendments to the law and watch the law.
