Sentences with phrase «exert over parliament»

Given the control that governments are able to exert over Parliament — it was not for nothing that the former lord chancellor, Lord Hailsham, referred to the UK's system of government as an «elective dictatorship» — the content of the Queen's Speech takes on an added significance in that it enlightens us about the laws which are likely to be enacted during the forthcoming Parliamentary session.

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Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

The London Health Commission, set up by Boris Johnson last year under ex-Labour health minister Lord Darzi, has called on the mayor to make bylaws banning smoking in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square and exert influence over the royal parks, where he appoints the board, to also ban smoking in their spaces.

In this way, he could have exerted just as much influence over government policy, his integrity would have remained intact and there would almost certainly be substantially more Lib Dem MPs than there are in parliament today.

That has been their intention from the start and so the creation of a federalist state, which would exert control over national Parliaments, has long been known.