POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Responsible Government
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Taken literally, you"d think that canada was governed feudally by a powerful. Queen/gg, who made all the important decisions, decided when parliament could sit, decided when elections happened, and controlled the military. Of course, this is not what happens. The government is actually run by the pm, who chooses the cabinet, controls the executive branch, decides when to call an election, and runs the military (textbook, p. 337). Answer: from the constitutional conventions of parliamentary democracy. These conventions are part of the unwritten part of the constitution. responsible. Let"s look at the first page of the original version of the bna act: Note that last phrase, similar in principle to britain"s. This is the only reference to the actual operation of parliamentary democracy in the entire bna act. This simple phrase meant we would continue to use the parliamentary system invented by the british. This system is operated on the basis of responsible government. (textbook, pp.
