POLS 2250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Elections Canada, Federal Accountability Act
10 Feb 2014
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Chapter 13: the legislature and the bureaucracy interactions between public servants and the legislative branch are unlike any other relationship involving appointed officials and other actors in the political process. 4. there now exists a number of officers or agents of parliament whose task is to help elected representatives to examine the actions of public servants (ex. The resignation of ministers a minister must resign if a serious administrative error is committed by their department is exposed however it is now accepted that is it unreasonable to hold a minister personally responsible. When errors are committed by an official under their direction, ministers are responsible for promptly taking the necessary remedial steps for providing assurances to the. Parliament that correct the action however some misdoings can be tracked back to a single minister (ex. a failed policy initiative) Ministers do explain and defend their department"s policies and administration before.
