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Chapter 1: Canada’s Federal Political System
Chapter 1: Canada’s Federal Political System
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Name: Justin Ryan
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that there are misconceptions of Canadians.
Introduction:
Attention: We have all had instances in our lives where someone, or some group, has judged us simply by what we look like, sound like, or where we come from, and as history shows this often proves to be harmful. It is true that some groups suffer from misconceptions more so than others, but regardless everyone in this room has probably been effected by a misconception and stereotype at some point in their lives.
Thesis Statement: There are often misconceived notions about both the Canadian people based on fallacious information.
Preview: Today I will be going over some of the most common
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It is important to keep in mind that although the majority may associate themselves with the liberal portion of Canadian politics there also is a large amount of conservatives and independents in Canada.
B. Canadians voted and implemented socialized “Liberal” healthcare policy so they all must be liberals. (Hasty Generalization)
1. Although socialized healthcare is associated with liberal policy it doesn’t mean that all Canadians should be grouped as liberals.
C. There is actually a large presence of both a conservative party and independents in Canada along with the Liberal party.
1. Ontario, Atlantic Canada and the Prairie provinces were about 30 per cent conservative, with that number dropping to 24 per cent in British Columbia and increasing to 35 per cent in Alberta. (Grenier) As you can tell there are pockets of conservatives around the country that have more effect on national elections.
2. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government is sworn in after his Conservative Party wins a general election with a minority of seats in the Canadian House of Commons. The election ends a 13-year-old government. (De Souza) A conservative party member was elected prime minister as recent as 2006 at the national
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Canada has two national languages French and English, but not everyone understands it. Despite the adoption of the Official Languages Act in 1969, which recognized English and French as the official languages of federal institutions in Canada, only one province — New Brunswick — is officially bilingual. (Huffington Post)
B. If you go anywhere in Canada you can speak French, and everyone will understand you because it’s listed as a national language. (False Cause)
1. Although the province of Quebec is known for its population speaking French it isn’t as common as most people think, and you shouldn’t assume a Canadian can speak French.
2. By assuming a Canadian can speak French it’s like assuming all Texans can fully understand and speak Spanish just because a portion of the population can speak Spanish.
C. Although Montreal, Quebec has the largest amount of French speaking population outside of France this ability isn’t spread throughout the whole country.
1. In the 2011 census, nearly 7 million Canadians reported speaking French most often at home, making up 21 per cent of the Canadian population. (Huffington Post) Although 21 is a large percentage it is not anywhere close to a majority and its largely centralized in a single
Although Quebec is in Canada, a majority of Quebecers do not identify with the national identity of Canada. Both societies create a sense of identity as well as nationalism (Hiller, 295). Hiller mentions two approaches to assessing Canadian identity; the unitary approach and the segmentalist approach (Hiller, 277). The unitary approach suggests that society consists of people who regardless of their ethnic back ground, identify as belonging to the national society, while the segmentalist approach concentrates on groups and communities that share racial, linguistic, occupational, or cultural similarities (Hiller, 28). While most Anglophones are more unitary or pan-Canadian, Quebec heavily identifies with the segmentalist approach. This dissimilarity of identity perspective may be problematic for the country, at the same time however, it can also be viewed as a struggle where contradictory parties find a way to compromise and reshape Canadian society together (Hiller, 277). Canada’s former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made it his objective to unite Quebec with the rest of Canada. In 1969 Trudeau’s government implemented Bill C-120, otherwise known as the Official Language act, which made French an...
When asking some of my friends why they would often say that their families all still spoke their native language or that they lived in a community which a lot of people still spoke the language as well. This is why it’s hard to describe a Canadian identity. We are a very diverse country that celebrates differences. I don’t think there is one Canadian Identity, I think everyone has their own that is influenced by the many different cultural identities that we celebrate in
However, not all was going well in Quebec. The French-English relation was going bad. Many studies showed that French-Canadian Quebecers were earning the lowest wage in all of the ethnic groups in Canada. Other complaints were that the top jobs in Quebec were given to English speaking Canadians. Canada was going through the worst crisis in its history, and unless equal partnership was found a break-up would likely happen.
Furthermore, the issues of representation in the House of Commons are even more evident in terms of the alienation of certain provinces. Western Canada has experienced political alienation due to the dominance and influence of Ontario and Quebec over policy-making as both provinces contain the founding Cultures of Canada (Miljan, 2012, p. 53) Also, the fact that Ontario and Quebec make up more than 60 percent of Canada’s population attracts policymakers to those provinces while marginalizing the interests of westerners (Miljan, 2012, p. 53). Thus, policymakers will favor Ontario and Quebec as these provinces harbor the most ridings as well as the bigger electors’ base. In fact, Western Canada is also underrepresented in both the House of Commons and the Senate when compared to the Maritime provinces as the Maritime provinces are overrepresented compared to their population. Also, many western Canadians are turned off by the federal government as they have been alienated from major political action and discussion due to low representation (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 2002). In other words, Ottawa does not address the needs and hopes of Western Canada
The Francophone’s population made up twenty-five percent of Canada’s population, and they mainly resided in Quebec. The native language of Quebec was French, and their religion was focused on the Roman Catholic Churches. It was different from the other nine provinces, which had a majority of English population following Protestant Churches. For the Quebecers, they felt that their distinct cultural identities have been neglected. They felt uncomfortable about being part of a nation that refused to understand their own culture, history, and language. The possibility that one day Quebec would be dominated by English population threatened the stability of the French societies’ culture, language, and educational system. The local government be...
It is cold hard fact that Canadian government is not entirely democratic. The question remains of how to deal with this. Canadian government, as effective as it currently is, has major factors in their system that have a negative effect on Canadians. Our current voting system favors the higher-populated provinces and creates a tyranny of the majority. Our Senate is distinctly undemocratic as it is an assigned position. Our head of State, the Prime Minister, holds too much power. Unless we resolve these issues, our government will remain far from a perfect governing system.
"Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian"
Tanguay, Brian . "Electoral Reform in Canada: Addressing the Democratic Deficit | Manitoba Law Journal." Robson Hall Faculty of Law. http://robsonhall.ca/mlj/content/electoral-reform-canada-addressing-democratic-deficit (accessed October 21, 2013).
Justin Trudeau has won an overwhelming victory as the new Canada prime minister. Trudeau is the son of a previously very popular Canada prime ministers, Pierre Trudeau, who spent 16 years as the Canadian prime minister. Trudeau’s victory was for the Liberals that also got the needed 170 seats to have a majority.
Canada is a society built on the promise of democracy; democracy being defined as “government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.” In order to operate at full potential, the people of Canada must voice their opinions and participate fully in the political system. This is why it’s shocking to see that people are becoming less engaged in politics and the voter turnout has steadily been declining over the last 20 years. This lack of participation by Canadians is creating a government that is influenced by fewer people, which is detrimental to the democratic system Canada is built on.
The introductory of Canada’s health care system in the mid-20th century, known as Medicare, led the country into the proud tradition of a public health care system, opposite to America’s privatized health care system in the south. Though Canada’s health care system still holds some aspects of a privatized system, it is still readily available for all citizens throughout the nation. After continuous research, it is clear to state that public health care and the association it has with welfare state liberalism is by far a more favourable option for Canada, than that of private health care and the association it has with neo-conservatism. To help understand why public health care is a better and more favourable option for Canada, it is fundamental
The differences in values and opinions among Canadians are illustrated through political socialization agents and variables that exist within different regions of Canada. From all of these agents and variables present, regionalism is the ones that impacts political unity in the...
...n of their cabinet, while others may choose to create a new political path without consulting the views of their party. Mellon thinks that the Canadian government is under dictatorial scrutiny, whereas Barker contradicts this belief. The idea of a prime-ministerial government is certainly an over exaggeration of the current state of Canada. There are too many outside and inside forces that can control the powers the Prime Minister of Canada. Furthermore, there are several outside sources that indicate a good government in Canada. The United Nations annually places Canada at the top, or near the top of the list of the world’s best countries in which to live. These outcomes are not consistent with the idea of a one ruler power. Canada is not ruled by one person’s ideas, suggestions, and decisions, but by government approved and provincially manipulated decisions.
The 2015 Canadian federal elections were quite historical; after 9 years, Stephen Harper’s Conservative party government was finally replaced by Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party of Canada. Many people were unhappy with Harper and were eager to welcome the liberal party in Parliament. A year later, however, it seems that with the rise of the LGBT community and the SJWs, the supposedly center positioned liberal party has radicalized into the left wing.
For liberals, centre left is Welfare Liberals and centre right is business liberals. One of the Canadian political parties that are closest to my position on the graph is Bloc QueBecois Party. In the election of 2015, Bloc QueBecois is Party’s platform is targeted on the economy, environment, family, education, justice and others. I agree with this placement because they showed that they can improve the society in different ways such as they will re-establish the funding of economic and social development organizations, re-establish and improve the eco-auto rebate program for first-time home buyers, transfer $3.5 billion for post-secondary education, re-establish cultural programs, oppose capital punishment and completely eliminate the fiscal imbalance and eliminate the spending power that the federal government has arrogated to itself. Although Bloc QueBecois party offers some good suggestion to change the society, this party is not what I expect. My expectation will be the NDP party because their position is closer to my idea than the Bloc QueBecois party did. The NDP party points out that they will try to improve the economy and strengthening the public health care system and this is similar to my idea too. However, the platform of Bloc QueBecois party in 2015 is now closer to my ideal political