The Key Players
Canada's Head of State is this person, though the role is mostly symbolic.
Who is the King (or Monarch)?
This is the term for a proposed law that is debated, studied, and voted on by Parliament.
What is a Bill?
This is a person's opinion based on their assumptions or personal point of view.
What is Bias?
This branch is responsible for putting laws into action.
What is the Executive Branch?
Canada is divided into 343 "seats" by one MP, commonly referred to by this term.
What are Ridings (or districts)?
This is the official title of the person who leads the federal government and the Cabinet.
Who is the Prime Minister?
This step in the legislative process involves a committee of all political parties reviewing the bill with the help of experts and other citizens.
What is the Committee Stage?
This is a type of media bias where important information is left out to favour a certain position.
What is Bias through selection and omission?
This branch is also called Canada's Parliament and includes the House of Commons and the Senate.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This type of identity is a sense of belonging shared by a group of people, especially those with a common language, culture, and history.
What is Collective Identity?
This person is the King's representative in Canada and gives a bill the final signature before it becomes law.
Who is the Governor General?
This is the electoral system Canada uses, meaning the candidate with the most votes in each riding wins the seat.
What is First-Past-The-Post (or FPTP)?
When the main story of the day is always placed on the front page of a newspaper, this type of bias is being used.
What is Bias through placement (or placement bias)?
The three branches of government are Executive, Legislative, and this one.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This set of rules prevents MPs from calling each other a liar or hypocrite during debate in Parliament.
What is Unparliamentary Language?
This group of about 30 people, chosen by the Prime Minister, runs the main government departments like Finance and Defense.
What is the Cabinet?
The Governor General must sign a bill, a step known as this, before it becomes an official law.
What is Royal Assent?
The overall set of beliefs and goals of a political party is called its platform, but each specific issue it focuses on is called this.
What is a Plank?
The Senate is the upper house, and this is the major law-making body in Canada, known as the lower house.
What is the House of Commons?
This kind of government occurs when the party with the most seats has less than 50% of the seats and needs help from another party to pass laws.
What is a Minority Government?
This is the name for the elected member who represents a riding in the House of Commons.
Who is a Member of Parliament (or MP)?
The final debate and vote on the complete, final form of the bill occurs during this reading.
What is the Third Reading?
The group of reporters who are dedicated to covering the actions and decisions of Canada's government in Ottawa.
What is the Parliamentary Press Gallery?
This is the highest court in the country and includes nine judges from four regions.
What is the Supreme Court of Canada?
A party's overall document of beliefs is called its platform, and the specific issues they stand on are called these.
What are Planks?