This study guide provides an overview of key terms and concepts needed to understand Canadian government and politics, including different forms of government like democracy and monarchy, political ideologies across the spectrum from communism to conservatism, how the Canadian government is structured with executive, legislative and judicial branches at the federal and provincial levels, the electoral and law-making processes, and methods of civic participation and advocacy.
This study guide provides an overview of key terms and concepts needed to understand Canadian government and politics, including different forms of government like democracy and monarchy, political ideologies across the spectrum from communism to conservatism, how the Canadian government is structured with executive, legislative and judicial branches at the federal and provincial levels, the electoral and law-making processes, and methods of civic participation and advocacy.
This study guide provides an overview of key terms and concepts needed to understand Canadian government and politics, including different forms of government like democracy and monarchy, political ideologies across the spectrum from communism to conservatism, how the Canadian government is structured with executive, legislative and judicial branches at the federal and provincial levels, the electoral and law-making processes, and methods of civic participation and advocacy.
This study guide provides an overview of key terms and concepts needed to understand Canadian government and politics, including different forms of government like democracy and monarchy, political ideologies across the spectrum from communism to conservatism, how the Canadian government is structured with executive, legislative and judicial branches at the federal and provincial levels, the electoral and law-making processes, and methods of civic participation and advocacy.
Order-in-Council Voting Representative Majority Government
Democracy
Minority Government Cabinet Coalition Royal Assent
Ideologies Totalitarianism Party Whip Prorogue
You will need to understand the following concepts:
1. What the differences are between different political ideologies and where they fall on the political spectrum 2. How Canada’s federal government functions and who is in charge of what 3. The differences between municipal, provincial, and federal governments 4. How a bill passes into a law in Canada 5. What the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees to Canadian citizens 6. How the electoral system works in Canada 7. How citizens and groups can influence government and policies