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What does The Senate do?
reviews and approves or denies new laws/bills trying to be passed by the HOC, takes national issues into account, and addresseds Canadian rights
House of Commons, Senate, Monarch
What is Parliament composed of?
electoral district that elects one MP to the House of Commons for debates and elections
Ridings
a formal proposal to make a new law or bill
What are motions?
What does Parliament do?
Parliament is Canada's federal legislative branch of govt. It makes laws, represents the people, and holds the govt accountable for their actions.
What does The Monarch do?
The monarch (or Government General) is like Canada's king, head of Parliament, and finalizes laws and bills.
represents Canadian interests through parties, central chamber of Canadian democracy, Debates and votes on laws and bills
What does The House of Commons do?
Came from Britian.
Where does our Parliament system originate?
using negative wording against one side, sharing stories from only one side, making other side look bad overall
How to find bias in the news?
voting, activism, media, petitions
How do citizens influence Parliament?
repeating an ideology/rhetoric to make one side look good and the other look bad.
What is Bias?
Problems with our current parliament system?
Some believe majorities don't work, our voting system is unfair, some places don't have an MP to represent a party, so their vote goes to waste, feels like a 2 party system.
Current political parties in Canada?
Liberal, Conservativce, NDP, Bloc, and Green
How does voting and representation work in Canada?
You vote for an MP in your area, then the MP in your area who gets the most votes gets sent to the House of Commons, whatever party has the most MP's in its party gets to become the party that governs Canada.
Why would someone / news outlets use bias?
coerce readers to one side, to share their opinion/news outlet without thinking, make another side look bad.
What is an MP?
A Member of Parliament. They're an elected representative of a party in the House of Commons
Yea, Nay, Pair
Three kinds of votes in Parliament