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.
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.