First show me that Trudeau was elected honestly, without vote rigging and cheating. If he was elected by fraud (probably)... then why even discuss him being a threat to democracy?
In Canadas form of Constitutional Monarchy, I thought the Governor General (where the Governor General represents the Monarch) asks the leader of the majority party to be PM and that person is not voted in by the People as our President is here. So in other words Trudeau wasnt elected, his party was and as the leader of that party the Governor General asked him to be PM.
I dont think the PM even has to be an elected Member of Parliament, just the majority Partys leader. It would be like the House going Republican and then the Chair of the RNC becoming President.
The Party with the second highest number of seats becomes the "Opposition Party'.
The PM still has to retain support from the majority of the House of Commons and that is where no confidence votes come in.
The PM can ask the Governor General for elections at any time but it must be no later than 5 years after the last.
In a no confidence scenario the Governor General may choose to ask another Party leader to form a Government or he may choose to call snap elections.
In France they have a mixed system borrowing from both a Parliamentary and a Presidential system. Macron is President and chosen by direct vote. They still have a PM. That is why their government can be dissolved by no confidence but Macron stays in place. The same wont happen with Trudeau.
In a parliamentary system, each constituency votes for a member of parliament (MP). The party with the most MP’s usually forms governments, and they can select any MP at any time to act as the Prime Minister. In practise, it’s almost always the person who ran as the leader of the party unless they leave or get forced out.
One big difference between the Canadian and U.S. systems is that the Prime Minister isn’t an executive in the sense that the President is. I’m not even sure if these executive orders are legal in our system. But it fits with the trend of our governments increasingly ruling by emergency authorization and decree, circumventing the parliamentary process.
What democracy?
First show me that Trudeau was elected honestly, without vote rigging and cheating. If he was elected by fraud (probably)... then why even discuss him being a threat to democracy?
In Canadas form of Constitutional Monarchy, I thought the Governor General (where the Governor General represents the Monarch) asks the leader of the majority party to be PM and that person is not voted in by the People as our President is here. So in other words Trudeau wasnt elected, his party was and as the leader of that party the Governor General asked him to be PM.
I dont think the PM even has to be an elected Member of Parliament, just the majority Partys leader. It would be like the House going Republican and then the Chair of the RNC becoming President.
The Party with the second highest number of seats becomes the "Opposition Party'.
The PM still has to retain support from the majority of the House of Commons and that is where no confidence votes come in.
The PM can ask the Governor General for elections at any time but it must be no later than 5 years after the last.
In a no confidence scenario the Governor General may choose to ask another Party leader to form a Government or he may choose to call snap elections.
In France they have a mixed system borrowing from both a Parliamentary and a Presidential system. Macron is President and chosen by direct vote. They still have a PM. That is why their government can be dissolved by no confidence but Macron stays in place. The same wont happen with Trudeau.
In a parliamentary system, each constituency votes for a member of parliament (MP). The party with the most MP’s usually forms governments, and they can select any MP at any time to act as the Prime Minister. In practise, it’s almost always the person who ran as the leader of the party unless they leave or get forced out.
One big difference between the Canadian and U.S. systems is that the Prime Minister isn’t an executive in the sense that the President is. I’m not even sure if these executive orders are legal in our system. But it fits with the trend of our governments increasingly ruling by emergency authorization and decree, circumventing the parliamentary process.