Canadian Government
This is the head of the federal government in Canada.
Who is the Prime Minister?
This term describes when citizens vote to choose their leaders or representatives.
What are elections?
This 1876 law governs the way many First Nations are managed today.
What is the Indian Act?
This individual is the head of the municipal government in Mississippi Mills.
Who is the Mayor Christa Lowry?
This person serves as Ontario’s current Premier.
Who is Doug Ford?
This is the elected legislative body responsible for passing laws at the federal level.
What is the House of Commons?
The percentage of eligible voters who actually vote in an election is called this.
What is voter turnout?
This term refers to agreements made between European colonizers and Indigenous nations for trade and alliances.
What are treaties?
This income source is how Mississippi Mills pays its employees.
What is property tax?
This person is currently the Prime Minister of Canada.
Who is Mark Carney?
This individual represents the monarch in Canada and performs ceremonial duties.
Who is the Governor General?
This happens when Parliament members vote to show they no longer support the government’s leadership.
What is a non-confidence motion?
This Royal Commission was formed in 2008 to document the effects of the residential school system on Indigenous peoples.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
Municipal elections in Ontario are held every how many years?
What is every 4 years?
The person who acts as the sovereign head of Canada is currently this individual.
Who is King Charles III?
This individual is charged with carrying the Mace and for the security of the legislative chamber.
Who is the Sergeant-at-Arms?
This is why the boundaries of ridings change.
What is voter parity?
Indigenous nations once practiced this form of decision making in self-governance.
What is consensus?
When the municipal government shares responsibility with the provincial and federal levels.
What is concurrency?
This person is the current M.P.P. for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston?
Who is John Jordan?
This legislative building is where the Ontario Legislature meets.
What is Queen's Park?
This form of government in Canada involves both a monarch and a constitutionally organized government.
What is constitutional monarchy?
This nation did not sign a treaty with Almonte's original founders.
What is Algonquin Anishinaabe?
This type of government consists of both regional and lower-tier municipalities.
What is two-tier government?
This person represents the monarch in the House of Commons.
Who is Mary Simon?