POLI 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Tyrant, Question Time, National Energy Board
7 Mar 2016
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Regards to quiz 2: royal assent is a constitutional convection, thus it follows that it was never written down. Sources of prime minister power continued: the prime minister and the governor general: Although it is in the hands of the governor general to dissolve, open, prorogate the parliament, it is the prime minister that can actually trigger these powers. This power resting in the prime minster to essentially trigger the governor general means it is greatly beneficial when it comes to political strategy: constructing the machinery of the government: The prime minster can determine what the political structure is going to look like. In that he or she can collapse departments together, add in departments, or get rid of them all together. Pco (central agencies) can help then execute this. Example: kim campbell, canada"s first and only female pm was the one that consolidated several departments together to create health and public security.
