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Canadian House of Commons: Prime Minister
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Unlike the Presidential system of government used in countries such as the United States, an elected member of the Canadian House of Commons must follow strict party discipline and has difficulty voting against the party line. If any elected member of the Prime Minister's governing party votes against any new legislation, the Prime Minister has the exclusive authority to expel that person from the party. A Member of Parliament (MP) who has been expelled from their party will then sit as an independent MP with extremely limited resources to conduct their work and almost no procedural right to ask a question or raise any issue in Parliament. MPs are only expelled from a party for voting against important legislation, such as the budget. This happened to Liberal MP John Nunziata who was expelled by Jean Chr�tien for voting against the 1995 budget. At the next election, the expelled member will usually not be allowed to run for the party again.
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Canadians delude themselves into believing they live in a democracy by electing representatives to the House of Commons, their form of Congress, where the Prime Minister actually has to respond to impudent representatives who dare question his actions. Canadians don't get to elect anyone in the upper house, the Senate. The Governor General appoints Senators and they get to sit there until they're seventy-five years old. Of course, the Prime Minister advises the Governor General on who to appoint. See what a great democracy they have?
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In the 1962 federal election, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal. He was Minister of Finance from 1963 to 1965 and President of the Privy Council from 1967 to 1968 in the government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson. He was noted for his economic nationalism and his support for new social programs.
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“More troubling is the fact that the new Minister can not be held accountable in the single most important democratic institution in the country, the Canadian House of Commons”, Charlton added. “It is Canadians to whom the Minister needs to be responsible and that can only happen through Parliament.”
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An insurance broker by trade, Anderson was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1974 federal election representing the riding of Comox—Alberni, British Columbia. The Liberal MP served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries and the Environment from 1977 to 1978 and then as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development until the 1979 federal election in which he was defeated.
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