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Chapter 1 (grade 9): How effectively does Canada's federal political…

- - - - executive branch
        
        puts laws into action
        
        runs business of government
        
        proposed most laws
        
        Prime minister and the cabinet
        
        Members of cabinet are called cabinet ministers
        
        PM choses the cabinet ministers
        
        cabinet included people from different government departments with different skills and responsibilities
        
        Cabinet proposes most ideas that become laws
        
        prime minister is the head of government. To be PM you must be elected as a political part leader and win the most seats
        
        PM and cabinet run day to day business and keep track of ideas and solutions
        
        Political party: a group of people with similar ideas about how issues facing society should be controlled by government. In election candidates of each party seek to become part of government
      - legislative branch
        
        represents regions
        
        makes laws
        
        House of Commons, Senate, governor general
        
        HOUSE OF COMMONS: major law making building in Canadas federal (national) government
        
        MPs (members of parliament) are part of the HOC and are elected. They represent a ridding or district
        
        MPs usually belong to political parties and the one with most MPs makes government
        
        members of house of commons debate, study, and vote on bills
        
        everything in legislative branch is in English and French
        
        SENATE: members of the Canadian senate (senators)
        
        appointed by prime minister and can remain in office until 75
        
        represent interests of Canadian REGIONS and MINORITIES
        
        all proceedings in French and English
        
        gives a "sober second thought" to bills being passed to give different perspectives
        
        CAN NOT propose laws that have to do with TAXES
        
        BILLS only become laws after senate and house of commons pass it
        
        GOVERNOR GENERAL: represents the monarch of Brittan. The queen is like a head figure.
        
        in legislative and executive branches
        
        deliver speeches as head of state
        
        gives the ORDER OF CANADA
      - the judicial branch
        
        supreme court (provincial/ territorial court) highest court in Canada
        
        applies and interprets laws
        
        JUDJES:
        
        come from legal profession
        
        supreme court has final word on all decisions
        
        has the main responsible to PROTECT AND RESPECT CANADAS RIGHTS
- - - - accountable government spending
      - protection against people who blow the whistle against civil services
      - more information about lobbyists
    - - SENATE:
        
        HOUSE OF COMMONS
        
        SENATE
        
        debate and vote on house of commons decisions
        
        reject #
        
        Accept #
        
        debate and vote on senate amendments
        
        accept some #
        
        accept all
        
        royal assent: passed by governor general and becomes law
        
        reject all
        
        first reading
        
        second reading
        
        study
        
        committee stage: examine the bill in more depth
        
        accept #
        
        ammend
        
        1 more item...
        
        accept #
- - - - association of reporters (about 350) who report the decisions made in government