Governance & The Federal System
This type of government occurs when the ruling political party holds more than half of the total seats in the House of Commons
What is a majority government?
The specific piece of Canadian legislation that deals exclusively with youth who commit crimes between the ages of 12 and 17.
What is the YCJA? (Youth Criminal Justice Act)
Land set aside for the exclusive use and governance of First Nations communities.
What is a reserve?
The economic power of a group demonstrated when individuals collectively refuse to buy goods from a specific company to force change
What is a boycott?
The three basic economic questions every society must answer revolve around what to produce, how to produce it, and this.
Who will get it? (Accept: How to distribute goods/services)
The three distinct branches of Canada's federal political system responsible for making, debating, and enforcing laws.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?
These five categories of individual protections are entrenched inside Canada’s Charter: Fundamental, Democratic, Mobility, Legal, and Equality.
What are Individual Rights and Freedoms?
Federal legislation first passed in 1876 that explicitly regulates the official status and rights of First Nations peoples.
What is the Indian Act?
The total assessment tool used by Canada to evaluate independent immigrants based on criteria like education, age, language, and work experience.
What is the Point System?
This economic model features a mix of both private ownership and heavy government intervention to provide public goods.
What is a mixed economy?
This body functions as a "watchdog" in Parliament, formally challenging and questioning the policies of the governing party.
What is the Official Opposition?
Non-governmental, citizen-led advocacy organizations like the John Howard Society and the Elizabeth Fry Society work closely with this system.
What is the justice system? (Accept: Criminal justice system)
The shared identity of a group of people, specifically rooted in a common language, culture, and shared history.
What is collective identity?
Economic, political, health, and security factors are the primary criteria that directly shape this piece of legislation.
What is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act?
The collective economic term for the total tax money collected by governments to fund vital social programs.
What is the tax base?
A specific area of responsibility assigned to a federal cabinet minister, such as Health, Finance, or Environment.
What is a Cabinet portfolio?
Community members who play a vital role in providing meaningful, culturally relevant consequences to youth offenders within Indigenous communities.
What are Aboriginal Elders?
Numbered Treaties 6, 7, and 8 represent historic territorial agreements between the Queen and First Nations located in this modern province.
What is Alberta?
This advertising technique relies on the "everyone else is doing it, so you should too" mentality to drive consumer spending.
What is the Bandwagon Effect?
This illegal activity involves intentionally avoiding paying required taxes, directly weakening a country's available tax base.
What is tax evasion?
The principle of "Representation by Population" dictates how members of this specific parliamentary house are determined.
What is the House of Commons?
Because the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is protected directly inside Canada's Constitution, we use this term to mean it is firmly locked into law.
What is entrenched?
Instead of establishing dedicated land bases in Manitoba, the Canadian government historically issued this form of land/money paper to the Métis
What is scrip?
The specific four official classes of immigration designated under Canadian policy.
What are Economic, Family, Refugee, and Excluded classes?
Organizations that workers form to engage in collective bargaining with employers to secure better wages and working conditions.
What are labour unions?