POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Responsible Government, Minority Government, Royal Assent
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Pol 214 // week 3 // september 26th. France: a classification, canada in some respects is like britain both parliamentary, canada is also like the u. s. in regards to federation (the idea of a federal system). In the u. s. , president is head of government and state. In france, president is not the head of government there is a pm in france. General takes the advice of the pm: the leader of a party with a majority of seats becomes the pm. Executive: monarch + governor general + privy council (the formal, symbolic, dignified executive, prime minister + cabinet (the political, operative, efficient executive), central agencies (the bureaucratic apex of the executive). Constitutional relationship of the crown and cabinet: ca(cid:271)i(cid:374)et"s authority (cid:272)o(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) the crow(cid:374), the crown safeguards democracy, cabinet are advisors to the crown, cabinet is responsibility to parliament, cabinet is not a committee of parliament, gov.
