POLS 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Westminster System, Comptroller, Set Piece (Filmmaking)
7 Apr 2016
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Complaints that power too concentrated in hands of pm, cabinet ministers, court: --> proposals to reform question period, revamp committee system, loosen party discipline, make senate elected or abolish it all together. House of commons and senate: executive: implements laws. Monarch, governor general, prime minister, cabinet --> Bureaucracy (departments, agencies, crown corporations: judicial: interprets laws. Supreme court of canada, other federally appointed. The monarch and governor general: canada is a constitutional monarchy, with queen elizabeth ii as the head of the state, responsibilities of a monarch. Decision to dissolve parliament and when new election held. Maintain non-partisan nature: non-elected head of states serves as a buffer to self-aggrandizing tendencies of democratic institutions (i. e. strong personalistic regimes) History of english domination particularly frustrating for. Quebec separatists, especially during royal visits in 1960s to the province. The prime minister and the cabinet: person who leads the dominant party in the house of commons becomes pm, responsibilities of a pm.
