POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Royal Assent, Comptroller, Parliamentary Budget Officer
31 Oct 2018
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Status ladder: first minister, prime minister or premier. Parliament: components of parliament, house of commons, functions, the mp as a representative. Components of parliament: crown, senate, house of commons. Functions of house of commons: establish a government, provide resources for the government, offer an alternative government, scrutinize government performance, representation, debate and deliberation, legitimation, communication and education, recruits and trains political leaders. What constitutes a confidence vote in the government: speech from the throne, budget and supply estimates, whatever the government terms as a confidence vote, spending bills. Introduction of time allocation (1956: eliminated right to appeal a speaker"s ruling (1965) Independent officers of parliament: auditor general (1887, chief electoral officer (1920, commissioner of official languages, privacy commissioner, freedom of information commissioner, conflict of interest and ethics commissioner, lobbying commissioner, public sector integrity commissioner, parliamentary budget officer (2006) Senate: purpose and status, composition and compensation, the sc ruling on changing the senate (2014)
