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- Title: Removing the Virtual Right of First Ministers to Demand Dissolution: Electoral Reform, Minority Government, And the Democratic Deficit.
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 272 KB
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Five of ten provincial governments--New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia--are considering changes to the way in which votes cast during provincial elections are translated into seats in their provincial legislatures. Federally, the Law Commission of Canada has recommended specific changes to the electoral system. This article considers one possible consequence of major electoral reform--the more frequent occurrence of minority or coalition government--and suggests a need to rethink certain traditional Canadian conventions of responsible government, namely the virtual right of Canadian prime ministers and premiers to dissolve the legislature and call elections when they see fit, even after their governments have lost the confidence of the legislature. It recommends new protocols to govern the respective powers of first ministers and governors general or lieutenant governors in the operation of responsible government. **********