Sentences with phrase «as a minority government because»

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That's because nearly all members of Canada's vast punditocracy have declared that a minority government is, first, inherently unstable, and second, disappointing for Harper insofar as it is not the majority he is said to have wanted when he called the election.

Westminster and the British media tend to perceive minority governments as unstable and ineffective, possibly because recent examples of minority governments (Callaghan and Major) occurred as the result of governments in decline.

The Minority in Parliament has taken a swipe at the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia's new appetite for borrowing describing it as shameful because he criticized the Mahama government for same reasons.

Because government has an obligation to serve all people — especially the minority, who can be subjected to the whims of government officials in the majority — the minority have the right and the ability to demand answers from presidents as well as stop executive branch action that may not be constitutional.

This aspect was not subsequently addressed in the High Court's ruling in the Wik case, and the first instance decision on mineral rights has since been judicially doubted because of subsequent High Court rulings about government «ownership» of resources: Justice North in the (minority of) the full Federal Court appeal decision in Ward - v - Western Australia observed of the Federal Court decision in Wik that «the conclusion that the mining legislation in Queensland conferred full beneficial ownership on the crown sufficient to extinguish native title can not be regarded as correct» (2000) 170 ALR 159 at para 843.