John Allen Fraser: Government

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“Question Period is not part of the legislative process, and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.”

John Allen Fraser

Source: The House Of Commons At Work (1993), Chapter 9, The House of Commons Functions, p. 122

“On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.”

John Allen Fraser

Preface, p. ix
The House Of Commons At Work (1993)

“Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.”

John Allen Fraser

Source: The House Of Commons At Work (1993), Chapter 1, The System of Government, p. 5

“For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.”

John Allen Fraser

Afterword, p. 173
The House Of Commons At Work (1993)

“As our parliamentary system now stands, we say that this role of overseeing the Government has probably become the main function of the House of Commons. the purpose of this function is to illuminate the weaknesses in government policies, the errors that may have been committed and the sectors that may have been forgotten, and to suggest alternative solutions.”

John Allen Fraser

Source: The House Of Commons At Work (1993), Chapter 9, The House of Commons Functions, p. 122