POLSCI 3J03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jack Layton, Clarity Act, Economic Nationalism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3J03
• Professor: Jacek Henry

Document Summary

Honours issues in canadian politics and canadian public policy. True or false majority refers to if majority of citizens / popular vote matches majority of seats. (return to 2015 popular vote from yesterday) o o. Not number for all elections because # of seats have been growing overtime. Historically canadians like strong majority: afraid of external threat (america) Economists policy is defensive nationalism: underlines why canadians like strong leadership. At times the party that has the most votes does not have the most seats, or win election o. Strong official opposition: happens when have more than half seats of leading party o. This, in theory, means that leader has to be careful because the opposition is powerful enough to win next election. Historically ndp is usually penalized between their popular vote and the seats that they receive o. Late 80"s into 90"s, political system sees big changes: new parties, mergers.