The caretaker convention: what happens to federal government in an election
The caretaker convention exists because when Parliament is not in session, the people's representatives cannot hold the government to account for its expenditures.
Now that Prime Minister Harper has advised Governor General David Johnston to dissolve Parliament, the caretaker convention applies to his government. On March 24, The Toronto Star ran a column entitled "Harper's powers to shrink" on the caretaker convention, but did not provide som...
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