POLS 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sunday Shopping, Clarity Act, Responsible Government
13 Dec 2018
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Do we have democratic deficits in our system of. Power has become too concentrated in the hands of the prime minister and his closest advisers, this undermines democratic accountability. Courts are becoming too powerful , going beyond their scope and influencing policy more now. Sunday shopping hours & abortion, aboriginal landownership, same sex benefits like pension etc. Bureaucrats implement the laws passed by parliment often have enormous discretion in determining the actual meaning of legislation. Estimate the government"s spending plans for the forthcoming fiscal year(1 april 31. Clarity act a federal law passed in 2000, that empowers parliament to review any future referendum question on quebec independence to determine whether it is unambiguously worded. This according to a 1998 supreme court rulling is one of the requirements that a question must staisfy if the outcome of a referendum is to be considered constitutional. **exam question possibly: what does brooks mean when he says responsible government & encouraging party disicipline (pg.
