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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (410)4/18/2003 4:26:37 PM
From: SofaSpud  Read Replies (1) of 443
 
How so? THose documents don't even mention a Premiere.

Actually I doubt you'd find a reference to a position called prime minister in any formal documentation of our political system. It's a position that evolved in Britain about 400 years ago, as the guy responsible for reporting to the king about what went on in cabinet, and then later the person who could rally the support of a majority of the members of the House of Commons. Only in the 20th century did the office achieve the kind of absolute political power we see now, and far more so in Canada than other offshoots from the Westminister system.

Provincial governments are similar to the federal, except that all the legislatures are unicameral. The head of the government is called the "premier", which means first minister, which is the same as prime minister. Actually the term "premier" was used interchangably with "prime minister" for many years -- you'll see history books refer to "Premier Chamberlain" or the "premier of Australia". In Canada, the standard has become that you refer to the head of the federal government as Prime Minister and the head of a provincial government as Premier. More recently, the heads of territorial governments have been given the courtesy title of premier as well.
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