GOVERNING RESPONSIBLY: A Guide For Ministers and Ministers of State 2004
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Annex A

... The Governor in Council is the term for the Cabinet acting in a legal capacity. Formally, it is the Governor General acting on the advice of the Cabinet. Parliament does not assign powers to the Cabinet or to Ministers collectively, but rather to the Governor in Council. ...

 

[original found 2004 at:

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