POLI 2220 Lecture 1: POLI 2220 Notes

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 2220
• Professor: Firmini

Document Summary

Section 33: notwithstanding clause : parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an act of parliament or of the legislature, as the case may be, that the act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section 2 or sections 7 15 of this charter, only applies to the charter, cannot be used for democratic rights, mobility rights, language rights, Four essential functions of parliament: to make government: to establish a legitimate government through the electoral process, to make a government work: to give the government the authority, funds and resources necessary to govern the country, to make sure a government behaves to be a watchdog over the government, to make an alternative government: to enable the opposition to present its case to the public and become a credible choice for replacing the party in power.