[DOWNLOAD] "Recent Committee Reforms in Ontario." by Canadian Parliamentary Review * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Recent Committee Reforms in Ontario.
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 234 KB
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Parliamentary government requires a balance of ministerial responsibility and party discipline on one hand with a fair measure of opportunities for individual representatives on the other. Ontario's Provincial Parliament recently adopted two significant changes to the operation of its Standing Committees. The first allows the government to send bills to Standing Committees for early consideration. The second empowers committees to propose, study and draft legislation at the direction of its members. This article outlines these changes. In 1999 one hundred and three members of the provincial parliament (MPPs) were elected. The governing Progressive Conservatives had reduced the size of the House by 27 members as a cost-saving measure. Due to this dramatic adjustment in the landscape of the House, all three parties had already accepted the need for changes to the Legislature's operations to accommodate the smaller Assembly.