POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: David Easton, Royal Assent, Responsible Government
24 Sep 2018
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Organization of canadian government: three branches, legislature, executive, judiciary, legislature, makes and debates laws, cannot propose to raise the gst or a new tax, executive: Implementing and execution of laws: only one allowed to propose taxation, accountable for legislature, bureaucracy, works for executive. Judiciary: ensuring laws and other documents are not being violated, governed heavily by conventions. Responsible government: based on convention, custom, usage, ex, executive must have confidence of the legislature (house of commons, party leader with a majority of seats becomes pm, governor general takes pm"s advice, ** not based in law (statutes) Crown prerogatives: ex: exclusive rights and privileges of the gg, convention, gg acts only on pm"s and cabinet"s advice, however: In exceptional circumstance (such as breach of fundamental constitutional principles), Gg may exercise his or her discretionary power: ex, gg may refuse cabinet"s advice on dissolution or prorogation and may dismiss the. 54: all taxes and spending bills must be introduced by cabinet (crown, sec.
