To day on April 27, 2010 the speaker of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada certified once more the supremacy of Parliament. This ruling stems from an order from parliament to the government requiring they hand over documents pertaining to Afghan dettainees. The government had stalled and then returned to the Afghan committee heavily redacted documents, effective ignoring the motion.
The speaker has given the government two weeks to fullfil the order.
This would never have occured if the government had a majority of seats. The motion to compel documents would have been voted down. We are in Canada expecting to have more minority governments for some time, voting blocks based on region seem to be the case for now, atleast. So what was established today and into the future is that government does not have an absolute right to decide on what parliament can have.
Here is the Macleans magazine post of the complete text of the speech by the speaker. http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/04/27/the-ruling/
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