POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Westminster System, Responsible Government
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Parliamentary democracy under the conventions of responsible. As we have seen, parliamentary government in the commonwealth operates under the conventions of responsible government. The parliament of canada according to the bna act consists of: The (cid:522)upper house(cid:523) of the senate, and. In canada, the westminster model looks like this: Queen executive branch legislative branch (cid:522)constitution similar in principle(cid:523) in the bna act, included the. In the parliamentary system we do not directly get to vote for the head of government unless we happen to be living in the riding represented in the. We vote for local mps, they make up a party government, and that party leader must win confidence votes to become pm. Parties bargain among themselves to which party leader will be pm. The principle of the convention of responsible government is that the party leader has the confidence of the house. Canada"s democracy is very vulnerable as it relies on interpretive unwritten conventions.
