POLS 205 Lecture Notes - Federal Accountability Act
12 Oct 2012
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Change in recent decades: nevitte"s decline of deference , attitudes toward representative democracy. Women are still a minority, despite having the vote for almost a century. Notion that representatives should take into consideration how a constituency feels: practice of canadian politics. Role of mps: elected at local level, trudeau referred to backbenchers as trained seals . Opposition mps = nobodies once they found themselves within fifty yards from parliament : parliamentary committees. Concentration of power: pmo has been gaining power of the years, people didn"t care as much when chretien did the practice. Political use of prorogation, election dates: harper is not the first pm to use prorogation for political purposes. Usually, senators are partisans: tenure of appointment. Limit of age is 75: representation of regions/provinces, representation of women and minorities. Harper"s approach: bill c-2, federal accountability act.
