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Centralized prime ministerial power ‘part and parcel’ of our history, says author Patrice Dutil
By Laura Ryckewaert Dec. 18, 2017
‘There is no doubt that the Office of the Prime Minister was a centralizing force from the very beginning of Confederation,’ says author and Ryerson University Professor Patrice Dutil.
Ryerson University Professor Patrice Dutil read more than 20,000 orders in council and another 2,000 correspondence letters in researching his new book, Prime Ministerial Power in Canada. Photograph courtesy of Patrice Dutil
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