Branches of Government
The Three Branches of the Canadian Federal Government.
What are the Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, and Executive Branch?
By this rule, the person with the most total votes wins the election.
What is the Popular Vote?
Canada's current Party in Power.
Who is The Liberal Party?
Favors Change and Collectivism.
What is the Left Wing?
The Job of Lobbyists.
What is to influence politicians and government decisions?
The Branch of Government that the Prime Minister and Cabinet belong to.
What is the Executive Branch?
The area where an MP represents after they are elected.
What is a riding?
The Party that Taber's MP (David Bexte) belongs to?
Who is The Conservative Party?
Favors Tradition and Individualism.
What is the Right Wing?
Parts of the Media.
What are Journalists, TV, Internet, Streamers, Social Media, Radio, and Podcasts?
The Branch of Government in charge of writing, revising, and passing bills into law.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Canada's Current Electoral System.
What is First Past the Post?
Two Parties that are considered close together on the political spectrum.
Who is "Liberals and Conservatives"?
Who is "Green and NDP"?
Who is "CHP and PPC"?
Based on their party platform, the side of the political spectrum that the Christian Heritage Party is likely to agree with.
What is the Right Side of the Spectrum?
The four roles of the Media.
What is Passing on Info, Advocating, Fact Checking, and being a Watchdog?
Within the Legislative Branch, this group provides a "sober second thought" and can get rid of a bill that could have otherwise passed into law, though they rarely excercise this right.
Who is The Senate?
The way a candidate is selected in a Proportional Representation System.
What is by winning the overall popular vote?
The type of government we currently have in Canada. (Majority, Minority, Coalition)
What is a Minority Government?
Canadian Political Parties that lean more to the left of the spectrum.
Who are the Green, NDP, and Liberal Parties?
What are Bias, Misinformation, and Disinformation?
The Amount of Readings Given to a Bill in the House of Commons and the Senate (Not Combined, Each)
What is Three Readings?
One benefit of the First Past the Post System.
What are "creating a majority government" OR "ease of figuring out your MP"?
Parties that would benefit the most if Canada changed systems to Proportional Representation.
Who are fringe parties? (NDP, Green, PPC, CHP, Etc.)
Who are the Conservative Party? (Would gain Party in Power Status)
The type of Economy likely favored by those on the far right side of the spectrum.
What is a Market Economy?
The meaning of being a "Watchdog".
What is Media pays attention to what the government is doing and tells us, as voters and citizens. More importantly, they investigate when the government might have done something wrong, and report on it?