Project Summary: Over time, the Executive (i.e. the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Prime Ministers Office, etc.) has become more powerful in the Federal Government of Canada relative to Parliament as a whole. Is this a good thing, a bad thing, or its hard to tell? A widely held view in Canada, and elsewhere in developed countries, is that government bureaucracies have become too big and expensive while being less efficient and effective than they need to be for the money spent and the challenges we face. Do you think that these things can ever be changed? Just as large ships dont turn on a dime, can government bureaucracies, that have worked largely the same way for decades, ever be turned? If we turn it, do we even know where to go with it? Some political actors, talking from a populist perspective, view the Supreme Court of Canada as overly intrusive in Canadian political life, or stated another way, an unelected body that often conflicts with the will of an elected government. What are the assumptions that lie behind this argument? Are they assumptions that should ever be supported in a constitutional democracy where the rule of law is paramount?