The Canadian Government
This is the difference between Parliament and Government.
What is LAWMAKING BODIES and RUNNING THE COUNTRY?
A written proposal for a law. Introduced in Parliament and, if passed, becomes an act.
What is a bill?
A political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person. The term applies to states in which supreme authority is placed on the an individual ruler who functions as the head of state and achieves his or her position through birth.
What is a monarchy?
These are the 3 types of citizenship.
Contests of leadership, ideas, politics and power, where interested individuals campaign for our vote.
What is an election?
Libraries are this level of government responsibility.
What is municipal government?
An appointed official by the Governor General who works on national issues and provides an independent, non-partisan review of federal legislation.
What is a senator?
South Africa's Apartheid where only a certain group of people are in power is an example of this government ideology.
What is an oligarchy?
Making a difference through effective use/navigation of online spaces with the support of technology is this kind of citizenship.
What is DIGITAL citizenship?
A successful candidate must receive the most votes in order to be elected in their area.
What is First-Past-the-Post/Single-Member Plurality?
Represented by the Prime Minister (Mark Carney) and the Parliament. They manage NATIONAL issues and responsibilities.
What is federal government?
High-ranking members appointed by the Premier to serve as heads of government ministries (e.g., Education, Environment). They formulate and administer government policy.
What is the Cabinet?
This is the key difference between an authoritarian and a totalitarian government.
The uncomfortable feeling you get when you hold two conflicting beliefs or when your beliefs don’t match your actions is an example of this.
What is cognitive dissonance?
If a candidate has no opponents, or if the number of candidates match the number of council seats to be filled, the candidate(s) win automatically and there is no election.
What is acclamation?
Canada’s head of state is tied to the British monarch (in this case, King Charles III) but their influence is limited by Canadian Constitution and laws.
What is constitutional monarchy?
A ceremonial staff that symbolizes the authority of the Speaker to oversee the Legislature. It is carried into the Chamber by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
What is the Mace?
These four guiding principles: 1) Legitimacy, 2) Justice, 3) Free Will and 4) Distribution of Power are related to this type of government system.
What is a democracy?
This is the key difference between MISINFORMATION and DISINFORMATION.
What is false information that is believed to be true versus false information with the intent to cause harm/confusion?
You rank candidates according to your preference (first choice, second choice, etc.). Each winning candidate must have a majority of the vote (more than 50% of the votes).
What is ranked ballots?
This branch is the court system in Canada responsible for interpreting the law, protecting citizens’ rights, and determining the appropriate punishment for people who break the law.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This is the difference between of how a law is passed in the provincial vs. federal government.
What is the same process as provincial laws but is recognized by the governor general and given royal assent and proclamation?
Principles such as anti-capitalism, imperialism, violence against resistance, natural selection and war are characteristics of this type of government system.
What is fascism?
This is how power is used in politics.
What is through social norms, physical force/violence, wealth, state action, ideas and numbers.
Power can be shared, kept to one person or taken away. It is never static.
This occurs when a political party wins more than half the ridings in an election. The party with the greatest number of seats forms the government and do not need to rely on votes of other parties to pass legislation.
What is a majority government?