NOTES
- Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution. The Fontana Library Edition (London: Collins, 1963).
- Ibid., p. 220.
- Ibid., p. 61.
- Useful studies of the role of the executive in Canadian politics are: Audrey D. Doerr, The Machinery of Government in Canada (Toronto: Methuen, 1981), and Thomas A. Hockin, ed., Apex of Power: The Prime Minister and Political Leadership in Canada, 2d ed. (Toronto: Prentice Hall, 1977).
- See Alistair Fraser, “Legislators and their Staffs,” in Harold D. Clarke et al., eds., Parliament, Policy and Representation (Toronto: Methuen, 1980).
- See C. E. S. Franks, “The Dilemma of the Standing Committees of the Canadian House of Commons,” Canadian Journal of Political Science IV, 4 (December 1971).
- Canada, House of Commons, Special Committee on Standing Orders and Procedure, Third Report, December 1982.
- Sixth Report, April 1983.
- Among the useful discussions of this topic are: Richard D. French, How Ottawa Decides: Planning and Industrial Policy-Making 1968–1980. (Toronto: Lorimer, 1980); James Gillies, Where Business Fails (Montreal: The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1981); and Christina McCall-Newman, Grits: An Intimate Portrait of the Liberal Party (Toronto: Macmillan, 1982), Part 4, “Michael Pitfield and the Politics of Mismanagement: the Liberal Party, 1977–1979.”
- Bagehot, op. cit., p. 64.
- See Denis Smith, “President and Parliament: the Transformation of Parliamentary Government in Canada,” in Hockin, Apex of Power. A contrary view is offered in Richard Schultz, “Prime Ministerial Government, Central Agencies and Operating Departments: Towards a More Realistic Analysis,” ibid. Richard Crossman's introduction to the edition of Bagehot cited above first introduced the argument for ‘prime-ministerial’ government. Richard Gwyn's The Northern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadians (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980) is also useful.
- A good discussion of the position of the Governor General can be found in Jacques Monet, ed., Jules Leger, Governor General of Canada, 1974–1979: A Selection of his Writings on Canada (Montreal: Les Editions La Presse, 1982), in particular the introduction by Monet, and “A Pause for Reflection” by Leger.
- Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Second and Third Reports (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services, August 1981).
- See Robert Sheppard and Michael Valpy, The National Deal: The Fight for a Canadian Constitution (Toronto: Fleet Books, 1982), and David Milne, The New Canadian Constitution (Toronto: Lorimer, 1982).
- See: Donald V. Smiley, Canada in Question: Federalism in the Eighties, third edition (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980); Roger Gibbins, Regionalism: Territorial Politics in Canada and the United States (Toronto: Butterworths, 1982); and Richard Simeon, Federal-Provincial Diplomacy: The Making of Recent Policy in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972).
- For example, Douglas Brown and Julia Eastman with Ian Robinson, The Limits of Consultation: A Debate Among Ottawa, the Provinces and the Private Sector on An Industrial Strategy (Ottawa: Science Council of Canada, 1981).
- Important recent proposals include: The Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on the Constitution of Canada, Final Report, 1972; Government of Canada, Federal-Provincial Relations Office, The House of the Federation (Ottawa, 1978); Ontario Advisory Committee on Confederation, A New Second Chamber (Toronto, 1978); The Task Force on Canadian Unity, A Future Together (Ottawa, 1979), (The Pepin-Robarts Report); Canada, Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Report on Certain Aspects of the Canadian Constitution, 1980.