POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Responsible Government, Situation Two, Speech From The Throne
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Pol214 lecture 7 respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le go(cid:448)"t {(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)luded} & Dio(cid:374)"s (cid:374)o(cid:374)-confidence motion was scheduled to come up for a vote in the house of commons on december 8: there was no doubt that if the motion was voted it would pass. So harper schedules a meeting with gg micha lle jean on dec. 4. The obvious thing for harper to do was to advise the gg to prorogue the house of commons: prorogation is the parliamentary term for formally ending a session of parliament for a break. Under responsible government the gg prorogues the house of. Commons on the advice of pm: for harper the obvious advantage was that immediate prorogation would enable his government to avoid facing the. House where the liberal non-confidence motion assigned for debate on dec. 8 was bound to pass. Party strategies dion"s letter to the gg. This was an obvious parallel to the king-byng crises in 1926.
