POL214Y1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3.doc
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Lecture 4: organization of govt, state vs govt, queen+govt gen, prime minister, cabinet. Executive: implementing the law and running the govt. Legislature: make the law and run the country. Bureaucracy works for the pm (depart of defense, transportation). Crown corporations come under the pm cabinet and is in the executive branch. The state is more impersonal and the govt is more personal. The impel of the state/ head of state is the queen and the gg is the defector head of state. Stephan harper and his opponent are the head of govt. First pillar of responsible government: the machinery of govt. or how the federal govt. Responsible govt. in canada is the british westminster system of parliamentary govt. As per the first pillar the executive has to be responsible : section 9-16 of the first con say that the pm has to be vested in canada and to the queen.
