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The Prime Minister vs. the President
The conversion of the Canadian parliamentary system has over time
begun to resemble the American presidential structure to endow the Prime
Minister with more authority. As mentioned earlier, officially the deal making and
policy creation has to go through a thoroughly mapped out system which gives
the executive branch more power which includes the crown, Prime Minister and
the Cabinet. However, after the 1980s, the drastic alteration in the system
formed these tacit set of rules that allowed the head of the government to have
more power than it actually is suppose to enclose; instead of the Cabinet
ministers carrying out the decisions, the Prime Minister is accountable for it
all due to the higher the recent accumulation of power.
Sir Trudeau enlarged his Office and the Privy Council that them the central agencies in assigning tasks and taking charge; it also enables the leader of the governing party to attain important information efficiently and effectively compared to opposition leaders (Savoie, 2004, p.86). Rather than letting the experts in a particular field make the decisions of a sector, the Prime Minister’s Office is calling the shots who did not specialize in that field. This is bad also because the Office of the Prime Minister is not accountable to anyone, if the decision goes through horrible turn of events there is no higher power to punish them. The expansion of the Prime Minister’s entourage permits him/her to have a lot more power that is similar to the authority of the President. This change provides the Prime Minister with an entourage that in many ways replaces the Cabinet (Hockin, 1977, p. 28).
According to Simpson, “The Canadian prime minister is more powerful within this system than any other democratically elected leader in other advanced industrial countries” (Simpson, 2001, p.4). This fundamentally implies that the power of an American President is even lesser than those of a Canadian Prime Minister because they are elected by national party conference; they are supported by the Cabinet that is appointed by PM and aided by the PMO and PCO Secretariat (Hockin, 1977, p. 47). Overall, the new change in the Westminster Parliamentary system is vastly headed in the direction of the American presidential structure which naturally suggests more power and authority.
Sir Trudeau enlarged his Office and the Privy Council that them the central agencies in assigning tasks and taking charge; it also enables the leader of the governing party to attain important information efficiently and effectively compared to opposition leaders (Savoie, 2004, p.86). Rather than letting the experts in a particular field make the decisions of a sector, the Prime Minister’s Office is calling the shots who did not specialize in that field. This is bad also because the Office of the Prime Minister is not accountable to anyone, if the decision goes through horrible turn of events there is no higher power to punish them. The expansion of the Prime Minister’s entourage permits him/her to have a lot more power that is similar to the authority of the President. This change provides the Prime Minister with an entourage that in many ways replaces the Cabinet (Hockin, 1977, p. 28).
According to Simpson, “The Canadian prime minister is more powerful within this system than any other democratically elected leader in other advanced industrial countries” (Simpson, 2001, p.4). This fundamentally implies that the power of an American President is even lesser than those of a Canadian Prime Minister because they are elected by national party conference; they are supported by the Cabinet that is appointed by PM and aided by the PMO and PCO Secretariat (Hockin, 1977, p. 47). Overall, the new change in the Westminster Parliamentary system is vastly headed in the direction of the American presidential structure which naturally suggests more power and authority.
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