The level of government in charge of garbage collection.
What is municipal government?
100
The number of times a bill is read in the House of Commons before becoming a law.
What is three times?
100
A group people who share the same ideas about the way the country should be run.
What is a political party?
100
A style of leadership characterized by one person controlling others with little input.
What is autocratic?
200
A geographical area for representation in the House of Commons or Legislative Assembly.
What is a riding?
200
The legislative branch of the provincial government.
What is the Legislative Assembly?
200
Typically the second-largest party in the House of Commons.
What is the Official Opposition Party?
200
The style of electoral system in which the person with the most amount of votes wins.
What is First Past the Post?
200
A document created in 1982 that provides a standard for how Canadians should be treated.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
300
Made up of ministers, mostly from the House of Commons.
What is the Cabinet?
300
The head of the executive branch of provincial government.
Who is the Premier?
300
The number of seats that a party needs in the House of Commons to form a majority government.
What is 155 seats?
300
The maximum length of term for a government.
What is five years?
300
A law passed by the municipal council that applies only to that municipality.
What is a bylaw?
400
People who use public demonstrations to influence public opinion.
What is a protest group?
400
A method of raising funds for city projects, repairs, and other costs.
What are property taxes?
400
The Upper House of Parliament.
What is the Senate?
400
An electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them.
What is proportional representation?
400
This term means to try to influence legislators.
What is lobby?
500
A group organized to persuade policy-makers to make decisions that favour their interests.
What is an interest group?
500
The local government of a municipality.
What is a municipal council?
500
The name of our current Governor General, Prime Minister, the political party in government, the Official Opposition party, and the monarch.
Who is David Johnston, Stephen Harper, Conservatives, NDP, and Queen Elizabeth II?
500
The positions that a party adopts, and stands on, at the beginning of an election campaign.
What is a platform?
500
The branch of law dealing with disputes between individuals or organizations, in which compensation may be awarded to the victim. For instance, if a car crash victim claims damages against the driver for loss or injury sustained in an accident.