Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis /

Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis / / ed. by Peter H. Russell, Lorne Sossin.

In November 2008, as the economic decline was being fully realized, Canada's newly elected minority government, led by Conservative Stephen Harper, presented a highly divisive fiscal update in advance of a proposed budget. Unable to support the motion, the Liberal and New Democratic Parties, wi...

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MitwirkendeR:
Cameron, David R.,
Dodek, Adam,
Franks, C.E.S. (Ned),
Gaudreault-Desbiens, Jean-François,
Heard, Andrew,
Leclair, Jean,
Leduc, Lawrence,
Levy, Gary,
Russell, Peter H.,
Skogstad, Grace,
Slattery, Brian,
Smith, Jennifer,
Sossin, Lorne,
Valpy, Michael,
Weinrib, Lorraine E.,
White, Graham,
HerausgeberIn:
Russell, Peter H.,
Sossin, Lorne,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2009
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. The Events and Their Background
  • 1. The 'Crisis': A Narrative
  • 2. A Crisis Not Made in a Day
  • PART TWO. The Governor General's Decision to Prorogue
  • 3. To Prorogue or Not to Prorogue: Did the Governor General Make the Right Decision?
  • 4. The Governor General's Suspension of Parliament: Duty Done or a Perilous Precedent?
  • 5. Prime Minister Harper's Parliamentary 'Time Out': A Constitutional Revolution in the Making?
  • PART THREE. Constitutional Conventions
  • 6. Why the Governor General Matters
  • 7. When Silence Isn't Golden: Constitutional Conventions, Constitutional Culture, and the Governor General
  • 8. Of Representation, Democracy, and Legal Principles: Thinking about the Impensé
  • PART FOUR. Coalitions and Parliamentary Government
  • 9. Coalition Government: When It Happens, How It Works
  • 10. Learning to Live with Minority Parliaments
  • 11. The Coalition That Wasn't: A Lost Reform Opportunity
  • PART FIVE. Tensions in Canada's Democratic Culture
  • 12. Western Canada and the 'Illegitimacy' of the Liberal-NDP Coalition Government
  • 13. Parliamentary Democracy versus Faux Populist Democracy
  • 14. Ultimately, the System Worked
  • Contributors
  • Index

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