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| | Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Canadian citizenship was first distinguished from British in 1947; judicial appeals to the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ended in 1949. | | | However, the day-to-day duties of head of state are exercised by the Governor General, who is generally a retired politician or other prominent Canadian. | | | The Canadian Shield encircles the immense Hudson Bay, extending from Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories at its westernmost point, to the Atlantic coast in Labrador in the east. |
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| | NewsLink |
| | Canadian newspapers are now cross-indexed by type and by province or territory. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Cabinet (government) |
| | Normally, a Cabinet is formed as the result of a general election, but if a Cabinet resigns, the governor-general may ask the opposition leader in the House of Commons to form a government from the opposition.The prime minister chooses Cabinet ministers from members of the Canadian Parliament, largely from the House of Commons. | | | Members of the Cabinet of the British government constitute the supreme executive authority of the government, and are the sole advisers to the crown. | | | The principal characteristics of European cabinets are the responsibility of the cabinet to the legislature, and the identification of the cabinet with the government. |
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| | Conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This was not the case in the 19th century, when the movements inspired by romantic nationalism were necessarily radical opponents of the then existing states, and separatist movements still are. | | | Burke, the so-called "Father of Modern Conservatism," articulated a 'progressive' conservative position through the Whig party. | | | Over the years, conservatism gradually became their main ideological inspiration, and they generally became less Catholic. |
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| | Canadian Senate - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia |
| | The presiding officer of the body is the Speaker of the Canadian Senate who is appointed by the Governor General of Canada on the advice of the Prime Minister. | | | The Canadian political landscape was significantly altered at the end of 2003 by the arrival of Paul Martin as new Liberal leader and prime minister and by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives to form the new Conservative Party of Canada. | | | The Senate tends to only exercise its power when the House of Commons is dominated by a rival party, such as the period during the infamous GST debate in the late-1980s to 1990s. |
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| | The Canadian Senate In Focus |
| | Senate reform in Canada is "widely viewed as a panacea for all manner of ills afflicting Canadian society24." The common view is that a reformed upper chamber will render it more representative and less partisan. | | | Arthur Meighen was summoned to the Senate in 1932 and chosen Leader of the Government in the Senate in Prime Minister Bennett's Cabinet. | | | Senators are appointed to age 75, and thus need not be concerned about being re-appointed, nor about seeking the support of their political parties so that they may be re-elected. |
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| | Politics of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Canadian politicians were unable to obtain consensus on a process for amending the constitution until 1982. | | | Because the Canadian Conservative party was new, estimates were attempted based on the votes for the old Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance party as the Conservative Party of Canada was a merger of the two parties. | | | If the Commons passes a motion of no confidence in the government, the prime minister and his cabinet are expected either to resign their offices or to ask for Parliament to be dissolved so that a general election can be held. |
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| | Monarchy in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tony O'Donohue, a Canadian republican and civic politician, observed that the Act of Settlement 1701 explicitly excludes Roman Catholics from the throne and the Queen is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring her to be an Anglican. | | | In March 2004, Citizens for a Canadian Republic proposed changes that would avoid a new round of constitutional negotiations by advocating a parliamentary reform of the office of the Governor General, an office generally expected to be transformed into a presidency should the monarchy end. | | | At the same time, 48% of Canadians say that "the constitutional monarchy is outmoded and would prefer a republican system of government with an elected head of state", and two-thirds (65%) believe the royals are merely celebrities and should not have any formal role in Canada. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Canadian Parliament |
| | Canadian law protects Parliament’s and the public’s right to know about the processes that lead to many decisions by the federal and provincial governments, but it does not apply to materials submitted to the Cabinet. | | | Canadian citizens age 18 or older elect members of the House of Commons to represent electoral districts, known in Canada as ridings. | | | Canadian voters choose the members of Commons in national elections held at least once every five years. |
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| | Provinces and territories of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that a province is a creation of the Constitution Act, while a territory is created by federal law. | | | In most provinces, the single house of the legislature is known as the Legislative Assembly except in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, where it is called the House of Assembly, and Quebec where it is called the National Assembly. | | | Canada is a federation of ten provinces and three territories. |
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| | Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Canadian citizenship was first distinguished from British in 1947; judicial appeals to the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ended in 1949. | | | To the north of this region is the broad Canadian Shield, an area of rock scoured clean by the last ice age, thinly soiled, rich in minerals, and dotted with lakes and rivers—over 60% of the world's lakes are in Canada. | | | The use of the maple leaf as a Canadian symbol dates back to the early 18th century, and is depicted on its current and previous flags, the penny, and on the coat of arms. |
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| | Canadian and American politics compared - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A British or Canadian Minister is often in his or her job for a short time, not a specialist in the particular area of government, and must trust his or her Deputy Minister to convey his or her requests to the bureaucracy underneath. | | | There are four political parties with seats in the Canadian House of Commons, and two in the US Congress. | | | In Canada the sub-units are known as provinces and territories; in the United States they are known as states and territories (United States territories include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and a number of "insular areas" in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean). |
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| | Embassy Washington :: Study in Canada / Canadian Studies :: Study in Canada |
| | To Find out more about specific programs and schools across the country go to directories of Canadian Universities and Colleges courtesy of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and the Association of Canadian Community Colleges. | | | Canadian universities are degree granting institutions (from BA to PhD) and offer the same kind of professional training as four year American colleges. | | | Many U.S. companies actively recruit on Canadian campus, and many students with a Canadian undergraduate degree are enrolled in top graduate programs throughout the U.S. Read what Americans studying in Canada say about their experience. |
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| | Canadian Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Canadian Confederation, or the Confederation of Canada, was the process by which a federal dominion– called the Dominion of Canada– was formed beginning 1 July 1867 among the provinces, colonies, and territories of British North America. | | | The Constitution of Canada is made up of a number of codified acts and uncodified traditions; one of the principal documents is the Constitution Act, 1982, which renamed the BNA Act the Constitution Act, 1867. | | | Confederation was accomplished when Queen Victoria gave royal assent to the British North America Act (BNA Act) on March 29, 1867. |
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| | Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Canadian citizenship was first distinguished from British in 1947; judicial appeals to the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ended in 1949. | | | However, the day-to-day duties of head of state are exercised by the Governor General, who is generally a retired politician or other prominent Canadian. | | | The Canadian Shield encircles the immense Hudson Bay, extending from Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories at its westernmost point, to the Atlantic coast in Labrador in the east. |
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| | Progressive-Conservative Party: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | She was succeeded as party leader by Jean Charest, who led the national party to a partial recovery in the 1997 elections, but the party's full recovery was hampered by the emergence of the Reform party (later the Canadian Alliance). | | | Kim Campbell, the party's and Canada's first female leader, briefly governed and led the party (1993) before she and all but two of the party's parliamentary candidates were rejected at the polls. | | | Even though the Quebec Conservative Party dominated politics in that province for the first thirty years of Confederation at both the federal and provincial levels, in the 20th century the party was never able to be a force in provincial politics, and ultimately dissolved into the Union Nationale in 1935. |
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| | Irish Canadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Irish in Canada still faced a large amount of racism and persecution, both from the Irish Republican Brotherhood's raids on British army posts in Canada (then known as British North America) from the United States, and due to long-standing feelings of anti-Irish racism among British and in general, protestant Canadians. | | | With Canadian Confederation in 1867, Catholics were granted a separate school board. | | | In fact, the Irish are the second largest ethnic group in the province after the French Canadians and one estimate suggests that as many as 40 percent of the French-speaking Quebeckers have some Irish ancestry. |
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| | Executive Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There is, however a Canadian Cabinet at the level of the federal government and not an executive council. | | | Consistent with wider Commonwealth practice, Canadian provinces have Executive Councils which are usually referred to informally as Cabinets and are headed by a provincial Premier. | | | Members of the federal Cabinet are also members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. |
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| | Chinese Canadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most Chinese Canadians have the Romanization of their Chinese given names as their middle name, or the other way around, but generally prefer to be called in their English name. | | | A Chinese Canadian (Chinese:華裔加拿大人,加拿大華人) is a person of Chinese descent or origin who was born in or immigrated to Canada. | | | Some second-generation Chinese Canadians are sent to after-school Mandarin and/or Cantonese Chinese schools to maintain or improve their Chinese language ability. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Canadian Monarchy |
| | Today, virtually all of the Queen's Canadian duties are performed by her representatives in Canada, the Governor General and the lieutenant governors of the provinces, though occasionally the Queen's authority is appealed to by Canada's partisan political leaders. | | | The Westminster-style parliamentary republican model, which is advocated by other Commonwealth republican movements, has also been embraced by some Canadian republicans as the preferred model for Canada. | | | In common practice, Queen Elizabeth II is referred to simply as "The Queen" or "The Queen of Canada" when in Canada, or when abroad and acting on the advice of her Canadian ministers (such as when she was present at the Canadian 60th anniversary of D-Day ceremony in France, in 2004). |
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| | Maritimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Maritime trading patterns shifted considerably from mainly trading with New England, Britain, and the Caribbean, to being focused on commerce with the Canadian interior, enforced by the federal government's tariff policies. | | | The French colony of New France was the objective and the present-day Maritime provinces saw conflict beginning in 1755 with the British capture of French forces at Fort Beausejour and Fort Gaspereau, guarding the Isthmus of Chignecto. | | | It is because of the lack of support for fiscal conservatism that federal parties such as the Canadian Alliance never had much success in the region, and the level of support for the new Conservative Party of Canada in the region is uncertain. |
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| | Canadian Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Canadian Alliance's origins were in the Reform Party of Canada, which was founded in 1987 as a populist party but which moved to the right and became a conservative party shortly thereafter. | | | The union was ratified on December 5, 2003, with 96% support of the membership of the Canadian Alliance, and on December 6, 90.04% support of the membership of the PC Party. | | | The Alberta Alliance continued to grow following the federal party's merger, and the provincial party fielded a full slate of candidates for the 26th Alberta general election, on November 22, 2004, and elected one MLA. |
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| | History of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After the rebellions of 1837-8, the colonies of Lower and Upper Canada were united in one government, the Province of Canada, with the Act of Union (1840), in a failed attempt to assimilate the French Canadians. | | | Young Canadians fought on many battlefronts around the world - the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Hong Kong, the Dieppe Raid, the Allied invasion of Italy, the Italian campaign, the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of the Netherlands. | | | Louis Riel, a French Canadian Métis, led rebellions in Manitoba 1869-70 and in what was to become Saskatchewan 1885, because of the treatment of native and Métis peoples. |
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| | The Canadian Senate - Political Forums |
| | Canadians have the vote and governing parties should be given a mandate by those who bother to vote. | | | Until the Senate is comprised of elected individuals, you will have a hard time convincing most Canadian's that individual's appointed by the governing party, will represent anyone except those that appointed them to their positions. | | | One of those Senator's appointed by Mulroney to assure the passage of both the FTA, and GST was one Nancy Clark-Teed. |
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| | Citizens for a Canadian Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | CCR claims the Canadian republican movement has gained an increased following in recent years, citing politician John Manley as as endorser. | | | Canadian organization founded in 2002 that advocates the abolition of the monarchy in Canada and its replacement with a | | | CCR is generally recognized as the leading republican organization in the country. |
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