POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Minority Rights, Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Collective Responsibility
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The cabinet acts as a committee of the privy council, but rather than merely advising the governor general, it actually makes the decisions in question. Cabinet power is derived from specific acts of parliament. Cabinet is given many quasi-judicial powers, such as hearing appeals from regulatory tribunals like the. The system of government that canada inherited from britain has traditionally been called cabinet government because the cabinet was a collective decision-making body. Most observers agree that cabinet government has been transformed into a system of prime ministerial government. In theory, all cabinet ministers are equal, although in practice this is far from the case. Since the cabinet occupies such a central position in the canadian policymaking process, every interest in the country would like to be represented around the cabinet table. Although the pm decides who will sit in the cabinet, several conventions have come to constrain the.
