POL214Y5 Lecture 8: POL214-Lecture 8.docx
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The canadian prime minister is more powerful within this system than any democratically elected leader in other advanced industrial countries (simpson 2001,4: we live in a dictatorship where the prime minster exercise so much power that may not be evil but may also not be on a democratic end for the ways in which our constitutions was analyzed, he made this argument against jean cretian, we say the prime minister powers increased in the 1970"s when pierre trudeau was in power. So what kind of power does the prime minister have: executive powers, power over, cabinet, bureaucracy, parliament, party and electorate, media. Executive powers: prime minister exercises the governor general"s executive powers, summoning and dissolving parliament, organizing government, calling election, making appointments, negotiation treaties, declaring war and peace, although we have a dual executive and the governor general in theory has powers, the prime minister executes those powers.
