Citizenship and the Charter
This term describes someone who belongs to a political community.
What is a Citizen?
This is a group of people that are working together to try and govern along the same idealogical lines.
What is a political party?
This style of government has citizens vote for Candidates rather than directly for laws.
What is Representative Democracy?
This term describes pushing for changes vocally within a system.
What is Advocacy?
This is one of the most important ways that citizens participate in democracy.
What is voting?
A party needs this many seats to form a majority government.
What is 172?
These people are elected officials that debate laws in parliament.
What is an MP(Member of Parliament)?
This organization promotes peace and political cooperation around the world.
What is the United Nations
The section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that ensures citizens are considered innocent until proven guilty.
What is Legal Rights?
A political region that a candidates will run in during election season.
What is a riding/seat?
This group provides constructive criticism of the government to ensure other perspectives are considered.
What is the Opposition?
This type of globalization involves books, films, and music crossing borders.
What is Cultural Globalization?
There are this many sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What is 7?
This is a visual tool that showcases the ideologies of various political parties.
What is the Political Spectrum.
This idea is that laws and policies should benefit the community as a whole rather than the majority opinion.
What is the common good?
This term describes someone who is uncertain about how they will feed themselves.
What is Food Insecure?
This is the year that the constitution was updated and ratified with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What is 1982?
Parties must have how many electors(people eligible to vote) to be considered an eligible party?
This Canadian electoral system elects the candidate with the highest number of votes in a riding, even if they do not receive more than 50% of the vote.
What is First Past the Post?
These are three kinds of genocidal acts we learned about in class. (not specific genocides)
Killing members of the group
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group