Canadian Governance
This part of the government puts laws into action.
What is the executive branch?
This theory links economic prosperity to consumer demand for goods and services.
What is consumerism?
This refers to fairness for all, considering individual needs and circumstances.
What is fair and equitable?
A permanent public record of breaking the law in Canada.
What is a criminal record?
The variety of species and genetic differences among plants and animals.
What is biodiversity?
This is the special set of laws that establishes a framework for governance in Canada.
What is the Constitution?
There is rivalry among producers in selling goods to consumers.
What is competition?
The identity shared by a group because of common culture or history.
What is collective identity?
This alternative form of punishment involves contributing to society, like cleaning a park.
What is community service?
A rise in the Earth’s average temperature caused by fossil fuel emissions.
What is climate change?
The group responsible for interpreting and applying laws in Canada.
What is the judicial branch?
An underground economy operates outside these types of regulations.
What is publicly funded taxation or legal frameworks?
This term describes the land set aside exclusively for First Nations communities.
What is a reserve?
To instill positive behaviors and attitudes in offenders as part of their punishment.
What is rehabilitate?
The system through which a society produces, distributes, and consumes goods.
What is the economic system?
This type of lawmaking body creates rules through the legislative process.
What is the legislative branch?
The idea is that resources like land, labor, and capital limit the availability of what people want.
What is scarcity?
Rights are given to specific groups like Aboriginal peoples and Francophones due to historical and constitutional reasons.
What are collective rights?
The percentage of people in a workforce who are unemployed.
What is the YCJA (Youth Criminal Justice Act)?
The tax base of a society includes all of this activity.
What is economic activity?
The process of bringing control over the Constitution to Canada from Britain in 1982.
What is patriation?
The Canadian sales tax is applied to purchases across the country.
What is the GST (Goods and Services Tax)?
A document exchanged for land during the negotiation of the Numbered Treaties with the Métis.
What is scrip?
The youth-focused Canadian law that addresses crime for those aged 12–17.
What is the YCJA (Youth Criminal Justice Act)?
In economics, the amount of goods and services producers create for consumers.
What is supply?