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| | Politics of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Supreme Court has nine justices, led by the Chief Justice of Canada, and are appointed by the Governor General. | | | A trial-level court from a common law province is required to follow previous decisions from both the Supreme Court of Canada and the appellate court of its respective province or territory. | | | Supreme Court of Canada, judges are appointed by the governor general on the advice of the Cabinet with parliamentary committee review. |
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| | Minority government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A minority government or a minority cabinet is a cabinet of a parliamentary system formed by the leading political party when it has won a plurality but not a majority of seats in the parliament. | | | Most recently, in 2004, the Liberals were elected into a minority government; it lasted to the end of 2005, when on 28 November it lost a vote of no confidence and was dissolved the following day. | | | This is because the system heavily biases the vote towards increasing the number of seats of the top two parties and reducing the seats of smaller parties, a principle known in political science as Duverger's Law. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_government
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| | Canada - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Canada |
| | The issue of separatism came to the fore again in the mid-1970s, and the Québec prime minister René Lévesque stated, after the success of his Parti Québécois in the November 1976 election, that a referendum would be held to ascertain whether the people of Québec wished their province to become an independent nation. | | | The two-chamber federal parliament consists of the Senate, whose maximum of 112 members are appointed by the government for life or until the age of 75 and must be resident in the provinces they represent; and the House of Commons, which has 282 members, elected by universal suffrage in single-member constituencies. | | | Canada is a federation of ten provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec, and Saskatchewan; and two territories: Northwest Territories and Yukon. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Canada
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| | Election 2004 |
| | Not elected for a specific "term" in office, the Cabinet governs from the moment the prime minister is sworn in until he or she resigns or dies. | | | Then if that government also fails to draw the confidence of the House, the Governor General could grant requests for another vote. | | | The Governor General's authority on this issue stems from the fact her principle responsibility is not to entertain foreign dignitaries or lead international diplomatic missions, but rather to ensure Canada always has a prime minister. |
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| | Mapleleafweb.com: Minority Government in Canada - What is a Minority Government? |
| | A minority government occurs when no political party succeeds in winning a majority (over fifty percent) of the seats in an election. | | | Five minority governments were headed by the Liberals, and three were headed by the Progressive Conservatives. | | | In Canadian federal elections, when this happens the Governor General normally asks the leader of the party that won the most seats to form the next government. |
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http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/democracy/minority/what-government.html
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| | Fruits and Votes » Canada |
| | This is what is meant by the term, minority government, as opposed to a majority government (one party having over 50% of the seats) or a coalition (two or more parties sharing executive and legislative power and dividing up the cabinet ministerial portfolios among themselves). | | | Canada has had considerable experience with federal elections in which no party obtained a majority of the seats. | | | The Conservative government won’t be initiating or supporting abortion legislation, and I’ll use whatever influence I have in Parliament to be sure that such a matter doesn’t come to a vote. |
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http://fruitsandvotes.com/?cat=35
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| | Canada's new reality: revolving minority governments |
| | That age, where a single party was able to dictate policy, died with the election of a minority government in June 2004. | | | The problem is that if the voters are as divided as they were 18 months ago, the election results will be virtually the same and the new government will be just as ineffective as the old one. | | | The previous one, which started with the implosion of the Progressive Conservatives in 1993, was a time of a virtual one-party state in which the Liberals couldn't really lose because there was so little cohesion on the political right. |
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http://www.thepioneer.com/dec3_editorial.htm
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| | TheStar.com - A brief history of minority rule |
| | Clark's government resigned, and in February, 1980, a resurrected Trudeau led the Liberals to a majority victory. | | | Determined to show he could be strong and decisive, Clark decided he would govern as though he had a majority. | | | Constitutionally, King could remain prime minister until he either resigned or was defeated in a confidence motion in the Commons. |
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| | Townhall.com :: News ::Conservative Victory in Canada May Bring Warmer Ties with US |
| | The Liberals stood at 30 percent, the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP) were at 17.5 percent and the leftist regional Bloc Quebecois at 10.5. | | | In the breakdown of seats in the 308-seat House of Commons, the Conservatives had won 124 seats while the Liberals had 103, the Bloc Quebecois 51 and the NDP 29, Elections Canada said. | | | Martin accused Harper of pursuing a radical right-wing agenda, threatening legal abortion and planning to overturn the recent legislation permitting same-sex "marriage" across Canada. |
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http://www.townhall.com/news/ext_wire.html?rowid=46470
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| | IOL: Canada's new government set to survive test |
| | The Conservatives were elected amid voter unease at corruption and misuse of government funds. | | | Harper only controls 125 of the 308 seats in Parliament and cannot pass his major policy planks without support from at least some of the three opposition parties. | | | They said they would push ahead with a campaign promise to cut the unpopular federal goods and services tax to six percent from seven percent - with a cut to five percent targeted for further down the road - and to crack down on government corruption. |
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1144188720151B253
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| | CBC News Indepth: Canadian Government |
| | The controversy led to a vote of non-confidence in February 1963, forcing Diefenbaker to call a general election. | | | King campaigned on the constitutional issue of the Governor General refusing to accept his earlier request for dissolution, and won the election. | | | It's then up to the Governor General to either ask the leader of the party with the next most seats to try to form a government or dissolve Parliament and clear the way for another election. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdngovernment/minoritygovernment.html
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| | 2006 Federal Election Links - Canadian Social Research Links |
| | Short of a majority, however, they'll be governing as a minority in a fractured Parliament. | | | "According to Elections Canada, barely 25 percent of young electors (aged 18-24) exercised their right to vote in the 2000 federal election. | | | Be they Liberal or liberal, New Democrats or democrats, Green voters or voters who want a green country, or even Red Tories searching for a home, these bloggers believe that Canadian politics should move in a progressive direction. |
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http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/politics.htm
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| | Jeremy Brendan -- My Life as a Reptile: Liberals Win Minority Gov't: NDP Will Hold Balance of Power |
| | I commend anyone who bothered to vote and I hope that we can all take pride in our form of government, since we managed to hold an election that was over in 5 weeks and didn't require the intervention of our Supreme Court to conclude. | | | With a reasonable showing of 135 seats, the Libs won't have the absolute majority to pass legislation effortlessly, but they'll be able to retain power if they can enlist the support of Jack Layton's NDP. | | | Harper may also have a new cross to bear; his own party may question his ability to ever beat the Liberals, a party that was tainted with the stench of corruption arising from their role in the Sponsorship Scandal but who still won in the end. |
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http://jeremybrendan.blogspot.com/2004/06/liberals-win-minority-govt-ndp-will.html
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| | Minority Government |
| | After electing parliaments, the parliament elects a government. | | | 1921-1925 — William Lyon Mackenzie King In the 1921 election, William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Liberals won 116 seats, half the seats in the legislature, giving them one seat short of a Majority government. | | | When one party is not strong enough to secure the confidence of parliament, there is a minority government and the incumbent government continues unless it resigns or is disposed of in a vote of non confidence in the government. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/3586/109466
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| | BBC NEWS World Americas PM offers 'stable' Canada cabinet |
| | Analysts had warned all along that the electorate wanted to punish the incumbent Liberals, who have governed the country with comfortable majorities since 1993. | | | Martin has won - but he can no govern on his own | | | Despite the setback in Monday's general election, he said the Liberals still had a mandate to govern. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3851959.stm
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| | A quick look at Canadian minority governments |
| | Tries the same coalition in 1925 but caught by scandal, asks Governor General Byng to dissolve Parliament and call an election. | | | Details: After King resigns, Byng asks Conservative Arthur Meighen to govern. | | | Details: Liberals govern with unofficial support of NDP. |
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http://www.canada.com/national/features/decisioncanada/story.html?id=d8cb71f3-7d25-4d41-8f75-94ee131c82f7
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| | Canada Liberals, Conservatives in Deadlock (phillyBurbs.com) Canada |
| | Harper, 45, has denied Liberal claims that he would seek restrictions on abortion, but he has conveyed some doubts about Canada's steady move toward legalization of same-sex marriage, which already is legal in three provinces. | | | The first returns came from the four Atlantic provinces, where the Liberals prevented any Conservative gains and won 22 of the 32 seats. | | | Harper, a former Parliament member from Alberta, has spent most of his adulthood in conservative politics and was a key figure in successful efforts to end the right-of-center divisions that had enabled the Liberals to dominate recent elections. |
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http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/87-06282004-323708.html
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| | Politics Watch - Canada's Political Portal |
| | A day after the June election, Martin referred to the longevity and accomplishments of the Pearson governments when he met to reporters to explain that he had a mandate. | | | Tories remain seated; Liberals survive final confidence vote | | | The budget was passed by a vote of 132 to 73, as the Liberals were opposed by the Bloc and the NDP. |
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| | CIC Canada Fact Sheet: Rights and Responsibilities |
| | If your rights have been violated by a private individual, you can seek justice from federal or provincial Human Rights Commissions or Ombudspersons, whose jobs it is to hear, investigate, and resolve human rights violations. | | | mobility rights: such as the right to enter and leave Canada, and to move to and take up residence in any province | | | If your rights have been violated by the federal or provincial governments, you can challenge that action in court. |
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http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomer/fact_08e.html
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| | Eye - Governing in a minor chord - 06.24.04 |
| | That, pretty much right off the bat, would put free marketeering and regressive social policy on the backburner (though we'd need to be vigilant about free votes on private members bills on subjects like abortion and same-sex marriage). | | | Such a government is threatened at all times by the spectre of a vote of non-confidence, forcing an election or change of government. | | | A minority government is, according to the polls, the expected result of the June 28 vote. |
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http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_06.24.04/op/editorial.html
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Canada / Canadian PM Takes Big Risk, Calls June 28 Election |
| | OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin took the biggest gamble of his career on Sunday by calling a June 28 election despite clear signs his Liberals could lose their parliamentary majority after a decade in power. | | | You can have a country like the United States. | | | Harper said Martin had presided over an "unprecedented record of mismanagement, waste and corruption" and said the election was designed to cover up the extent of the scandal. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/canada/articles/2004/05/23/canadian_pm_takes_big_risk_calls_june_28_election
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| | Support for the Liberals shrank amid voter fatigue and a major kickback scandal which brought down Martin's minority government in November. | | | It was the first time a right-wing party had won an election since 1988, when the then Progressive Conservative government beat the Liberals. | | | The result was a personal triumph for Conservative leader Stephen Harper, a 46-year-old economist who forced through the creation of the party in December 2003 by uniting two squabbling right-wing movements. |
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http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nN23284236&imageid=&cap
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| | FX Claim Martin |
| | In Canada, federal minority governments have lasted more than three years and less than five months. | | | Paul Martin's Liberals won a minority government in Canada as a result of a general election held on June 28, 2004. | | | If the claim is true, it will be judged shortly after 2006/2/1. |
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http://www.ideosphere.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=Martin
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| | The Poison Kitchen: June 2004 |
| | Moon and his cronies (including both Democrats and Republicans) are a perfect case study for why the separation of Church and State is not just a good idea, but should be one of those absolute inviolate parts of any national constitution. | | | Coalitions of the Liberals and the NDP lead to the golden age of Canada with the Pearson and Trudeau governments. | | | CBC is calling the election for the Liberals which have enough seats to form a minority government, it remains to be seen if the Liberals and the NDP have enough to form a majority in coalition. |
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http://poisonkitchen.typepad.com/politics/2004/06
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| | Conservatives win narrow mandate in Canada -DAWN - Top Stories; January 25, 2006 |
| | He will be the first prime minister from the oil-rich western province of Alberta for 25 years. | | | The outgoing minority Liberal government stayed in power for 17 months before it was defeated in November over a kickback scandal. | | | Unlike the Liberals, who governed with the help of the left-leaning New Democrats, the Conservatives have no natural allies in a four-party Canadian parliament and will need to seek support from political rivals on an issue-by-issue basis. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/01/25/top17.htm
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| | NodeWorks - Canada: Government |
| | Newsletter that covers news about the 13 provincial and territorial governments. | | | Official site for the federal government in Canada. | | | This category is generally for Government of Canada sites (with URLs ending with gc.ca). |
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| | Thais vote for new Senate, attacks mar polls | | | Harper, a somewhat dour 46-year-old economist, led the Conservatives to a narrow victory in a January 23 election which ended 12 years of Liberal rule. | | | I mean, we have 47 days between now and the end of June (when legislators go home for the summer)," said Rob Nicholson, the minister in charge of pushing legislation through Parliament. |
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http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-04-03T122442Z_01_N02238710_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-POLITICS-COL.XML
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| | globeandmail.com - Breaking Canada's Election 2004 News |
| | Prime Minister says his 'stable' government's first priority is to rebuild cabinet; to keep inner circle intact | | | As expected, the separatist party dominated election results in the province | | | Just seats shy of grabbing the balance of power in a Liberal minority government |
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| | Ottawa Sun Columnist: Val Sears - Minority rules over a divided House |
| | He then engineered his government's own defeat, dropped his role as professor during the campaign and won a majority. | | | Joe Clark's minority government of 1979 -- the last for 25 years -- made the classic mistake of trying to govern as if they had a majority. | | | Pierre Trudeau was shocked to find his government in a minority position in 1972 but managed a two-year term with enough left-wing policies to keep the support of the NDP. |
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Ottawa/Val_Sears/2004/07/06/pf-526281.html
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| | 2004 Canadian Elections - A Tight Race (Russell.com) |
| | The New Democratic Party's Jack Layton got 14% of the votes, and the Bloc Quebecois' Gilles Duceppe received 6%. | | | When Prime Minister Paul Martin called for a federal election for June 28th, 2004, many expected the likelihood of a Liberal minority government. | | | Meanwhile, a Liberal government may be better for bonds. |
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http://www.russell.com/ca/Education_Centre/Article_Library/Market_Analysis/2004/2004_CDN_Elections.asp
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| | Bloomberg.com: Canada |
| | Bought out his partner in Canada Steamship Lines and won a Montreal district in a national election, joining the Liberals in opposition. | | | Martin, who succeeded Jean Chretien as prime minister in December after pressuring him to resign, lost the Liberal Party's lock on power yesterday after the election he called in May yielded a minority government. | | | Won the Liberal leadership with 94 percent support at a party convention. |
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| | David Billington: Weblog |
| | Minority governments in Canada tend to have shorter tenures of office than governments with an outright majority. | | | The Canadian election today looks like it will bring a minority Conservative government to power there. | | | The party has toned down its more extreme positions on social issues (eg. |
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http://members.aol.com/davidpb4/weblog.html
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| | The Scholarship & Grant Guide |
| | But my hands are tied by the laws of the land. | | | In 2002-2003, 38 state governments increased the amount of money they allotted to higher education – BUT tuition STILL increased at public four-year colleges in all 50 states! | | | No matter if you’re a high school kid… a single mom looking to further your education… a parent or grandparent… or an international or minority student – you’ve come to the right place to find free money for college... |
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