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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics,can.politics
Subject: Re: Canadian and American systems
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 16:34:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 16:34:42 1984
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Mark Brader comments on our new Prime Minister being able to take office
without being elected. Note a couple of things: (1) the new Prime Minister
must be a member of Parliament before becoming Prime Minister (i.e., must
be elected by the voters in one riding), and (2) the Prime Minister is
not our head of state, only the head of government. In a legal sense
the Prime Minister has much less power than the President, since acts
of government are effected by the Governor-General in Council, which in
practise means the Cabinet. Our head of state is the Queen, represented
in Canada by the Governor-General.

Dave Sherman
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