MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Page 44, Canadian Content, Unemployment Benefits

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

Document Summary

Introduction: the canadian legal system is the machinery that comprises and regulates government. The legislative branch creates law in the form of statutes and regulations: 2. The executive branch formulates and implements government policy and law: 3. Statement of claim: a document setting out the basis for a legal compliant. The legislative branch of government: legislative branch: the branch of government that creates statute law, example: criminal code of canada & tobacco control act. Statute law: formal, written laws created or enacted by the legislative branch of government three levels of government make legislation in canada: federal, provincial, municipal. Parliament, the federal legislative branch, comprises the house of commons and the senate. Statute law and jurisdiction: the constitution act dictates whether each level of government can make a given law or not, each level of government has the jurisdiction to pass laws within its proper authority or sphere.