Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada (French: Premier-ministre du Canada) is the head of government of the Canadian Republic; the head of state is the president. As part of Canada's Westminster parliamentary system, the Prime Minister is appointed by the majority in the House of Commons (the lower chamber of the Canadian Parliament), and exercises the majority of executive power of the state, with the president's role mostly ceremonial in nature. The Prime Minister may be removed from office via presidential executive order, but must immediately be replaced in an automatically triggered general election, and cannot be directly appointed by the president. According to the Constitution of Canada, the president appoints as prime minister the leader of the party or coalition of parties which commands the confidence of the House of Commons; thus, the president has little if any direct role in forming the government, and as such is afforded a less partisan position as head of state than in presidential or even semi-presidential systems (compare the United States or the Arab Union).