POLI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cabinet Of Canada, Responsible Government, Backbencher
8 Apr 2018
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The constitution: comprised of more than the written constitutional law found in the original british north america. Act (bna) 1867, now known as the constitution act, 1867 and the constitution act 1892. Political parties: canadian political parties are still private organizations that control their own constitutions and exclusive memberships. They are much more stringently regulated and publicly financed than ever before: canada"s first pm - sir john a. macdonald was the first to successfully establish a functioning parliamentary coalition and build it into a formal political party. Liberals dominated party politics for much of the 20th century. Catholic pm, wilfrid laurier, and continued with canada"s longest serving pm, william lyon. The electoral system and the canadian voter: canada"s national single-member plurality electoral system divides the country up into 338 electoral districts (constituencies/ridings) - each is allocated one representative to the house of. First past the post (winner take all) election in the individual ridings.
