MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Consumer Protection, Pass Laws, Procedural Law

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joe Radocchia

Document Summary

Canadian legal system: machinery that comprises and regulates government. Legislative branch of gov creates law in the form of statutes and regulates. Executive branch forms and implements gov policy and law. Constitutional law: supreme law of canada- charged with ascertaining and enforcing limits on the exercise of power by the branches of government. Also charged with upholding values of a nation. Tied to liberalism: emphasizes individual freedom as key value. Legislative branch passes laws that impact business operations. Executive branch implements and generates policy directed at business. Judicial branch provides ruling that resolves current legal conflicts and impact future. Constitutional conventions: code of ethics that govern our political processes. Politicians have agreed to abide by them. Legislative branch: statue law: formal, written laws created by legislative branch, for legislation to become law, must go to house of commons and senate, senate- chamber of sober second thoughts, at provincial level there is no senate.