Ch. 6

Question 1

Redound

Answer 1

contribute greatly to (a person’s credit or honor).

“his latest diplomatic effort will redound to his credit”

Question 2

Portent

Answer 2

a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
“they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death”

Question 3

Governor-In-Council

Answer 3

A Governor in Council (GIC) appointment is one made by the Governor General, on the advice of the Queen’s Privy Council of Canada (i.e., the Cabinet). The appointments are made through an Order in Council (OIC) and range from heads of agencies and chief executive officers of Crown corporations to members of quasi-judicial tribunals.

Question 4

Panopoly

Answer 4

A collection of things.

Question 5

Central executive

Answer 5

1. Political and non-political elements of executive engaged in generating and coordinating central policy.
2. Cabinet, cabinet committees, PMO (Prime Ministers Office), PCO (Privy Council Office), Department of Finance, Treasury Board Secretariat, etc.

Question 6

Exigency

Answer 6

an urgent need or demand.

“women worked long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it”

Question 7

De novo

Answer 7

“from the new” - deciding on something without consideration of past rulings.

Question 8

Dignified executive

Answer 8

authority

Queen, Governor General, privy council

Question 9

Efficient executive

Answer 9

power

Prime minister, cabinet, public service

Question 10

Institutionalized cabinet

Answer 10

Adopted by fed. and provinces

Question 11

Governor General prov. equiv.

Answer 11

Lieutenant-Governor

Question 12

Privy Council prov. equiv

Answer 12

Executive council

Question 13

Prime minister prov. equiv.

Answer 13

Premier

Question 14

Interlocutor

Answer 14

A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.

Question 15

Prorogue

Answer 15

Discontinue a session of (a parliament or other legislative assembly) without dissolving it.

Question 16

Cabinet formation

Answer 16

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Question 17

First Minister

Answer 17

Prime Minister

Question 18

Collective Responsibility

Answer 18

Responsibility of cabinet:

1. to the monarch
2. Itself
3. elected House

Question 19

Convention of cabinet secrecy

Answer 19

Cabinet discussions should be accessible by courts unless disclosure will interfere with public interest.

Question 20

Cabinet fed. v. prov.

Answer 20

Fed. cabinet smaller percentage of Commons than prov. assembly

Question 21

Territorial Executives - lieutenant governor

Answer 21

Commissioner, now Premier

Question 22

Territories: Party Politics v. Consensus Gov

Answer 22

Party Politics = Yukon

Consensus Government = NWT and Nunavut, everyone runs as an independent, similar to coalition government

Question 23

Traditional Cabinet

Answer 23

1867 - 1920s

Before rise of administrative state and executive federalism

Question 24

Departmentalized Cabinet/Unaided Cabinet

Answer 24

1920s - 1960s

Departments and ministers engines of public sector expansion

Ministers portfolio loyalty

Question 25

Institutionalized cabinet

Answer 25

1960s - 1990s central agencies and management techniques Ministers represent government-wide priorities and objectives of cabinet Greater power-sharing Planning-budgeting nexus Decision-making more structured in centralized cabinet

Question 26

Post-Institutionalized cabinet

Answer 26

Court Government

Question 27

Court Government

Answer 27

Donald Savoie Spender-Guardian dichotomy Power away from Ministers to centre Prime minister and main ministers tell other ministers what to do; no collective policy-making with cabinet

Question 28

The Differentiated Centre

Answer 28

David Good Spenders (ministers), Guardians (finance and TB), Priority Setters (PMO, PCO) and Watchdogs (OAG) Some agencies have more power than others

Question 29

PMO

Answer 29

Prime Ministers Office

Question 30

PCO

Answer 30

Privy Council Office

Question 31

OAG

Answer 31

Office of the Auditor General

Question 32

A-Base B-Base C-Base Statutory

Answer 32

A-Base – permanent funding to the department; B-Base – funding to the department that is managed through a special purpose allotment; C-Base – funding that is temporary in nature (provided for a specific time period); and Statutory – funding that is provided directly as a result of legislative obligations.

Question 33

Communications Theory Approach

Answer 33

Centralisation in Canada's central executive Communications technology allow centralized messaging and coordinated action

Question 34

Hybrid Interpretation

Answer 34

Institutionalized cabinet and prime minister centred cabinet Trudeau Government

Question 35

Trudeau Gov't v. Harper Gov't

Answer 35

Hyper-centralized, defunded PCO, did not allow ministers to speak freely - Harper Cabinet gov't (e.g., more committees), decentralized power, funded PCO, "results approach", allows Ministers to speak independently - Trudeau

Question 36

Collegial

Answer 36

relating to or involving shared responsibility, as among a group of colleagues.