Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sask.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!sask!custead From: custead@sask.UUCP (Custead) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Canadian and American systems Message-ID: <353@sask.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 12:35:23 EST Article-I.D.: sask.353 Posted: Fri Mar 2 12:35:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 01:21:43 EST References: <3414@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada Lines: 15 Dave Sherman writes: 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)... Well being a member of Parliament is not the same thing as being elected by the voters. In particular, an appointed senator can be prime minister (and has been in the past) without ever receiving a single vote from ANYONE. Yet another loophole in the Canadian system...remember recent appointments to the senate in order to have cabinet ministers in regions where you don't get no votes...a cabinet minister is a fairly important job... does not require facing the electorate though. Prime minister simply means 'first cabinet minister', and the principle is the same.