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Title Parliamentary democracy in crisis / edited by Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 201 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson -- Introduction / Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin -- Part One: The Events and Their Background. The "Crisis": A Narrative / Michael Valpy -- A Crisis Not Made in a Day / Gary Levy -- Part Two: The Governor General's Decision to Prorogue. To Prorogue or Not to Prorogue: Did the Governor General Make the Right Decision? / C.E.S. (Ned) Franks -- The Governor General's Suspension of Parliament: Duty Done or a Perilous Precedent? / Andrew Heard -- 5. Prime Minister Harper's Parliamentary "Time Out": A Constitutional Revolution in the Making? / Lorraine E. Weinrib -- Part Three: Constitutional Conventions. Why the Governor General Matters / Brian Slattery -- When Silence Isn't Golden: Constitutional Conventions, Constitutional Culture, and the Governer General / Lorne Sossin and Adam Dodek -- Of Representation, Democracy, and Legal Principles: Thinking about the Impenseþ / Jean Leclair and Jean-Francıois Gaudreault-Desbiens -- Part Four: Coalitions and Parliamentary Government. Coalition Government: When It Happens, How It Works / Lawrence Leduc -- Learning to Live with Minority Parliaments / Peter H. Russell -- The Coalition That Wasn't: A Lost Reform Opportunity / Graham White -- Part Five: Tensions in Canada's Democratic Culture. Western Canada and the "Illegitimacy" of the Liberal-NDP Coalition Government / Grace Skogstad -- Parliamentary Democracy versus Faux Populist Democracy / Jennifer Smith -- Ultimately, the System Worked / David R. Cameron.
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Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Canada. Parliament.
Canada. Parliament.
Canada. Parliament -- Rules and practice.
Parliamentary practice.
Canada. Parliament -- Rules and practice.
Parliamentary practice -- Canada.
Canada.
Constitutional history -- Canada.
Constitutional history.
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1980-
Subject Canada -- Politics and government -- 2006-
Chronological Term Since 1980
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Rules.
Added Author Russell, Peter H.
Sossin, Lorne, 1964-
Other Form: Print version: Parliamentary democracy in crisis. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009293055
ISBN 9781442688773 (electronic book)
1442688777 (electronic book)
9781442686007 (electronic book)
1442686006 (electronic book)
9781442640764 (bound)
1442640766 (bound)
9781442610149 (paperback)
144261014X (paperback)