PAP 2300 Chapter Notes -Fiscal Imbalance, Inta, Air Canada

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2300
• Professor: Frank Ohemeng

Document Summary

Health care provincial responsibility but both levels have health ministry: golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules (spending power) Fiscal imbalance: regional/provincial has most expensive policy areas but lack fiscal capacity, federal has fiscal resources but lacks constitutional jurisdiction in most expensive policy areas. Federal provincial diplomacy: regular meetings between federal and provincial ministers: cabinet parliamentary government. Governor general has power on behalf of monarch to decide which political party will form government, when parliament will be dissolved, when a new election will be called, confer royal assent upon legislation. Hoc: responsible government: government must explain itself and be accountable to the elected representatives of the people, fusion of powers: facilitates accountability in that the pm and cabinet must participate every day in question period. Judicial branch: supreme court and all courts and judges below in federal and provincial: composed of appointed officials, mediates 2 types of disputes.