Canada Political Structure

America has many allies but people forget about one of its closest allies both geographically and relationally, Canada. Canada has always been one of Americas allies and friends, just recently the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and the president of the United States Barack Obama spent time strategizing and building a stronger relationship between the two North American countries. While the countries share many things in common, Canada’s history and political structure differs from the United states significantly. The history of early Canada is much like that of its neighbors to the south. The land that Canada makes up has been occupied by many different people groups mostly natives for a long period of time. Canada was first colonized by the French with leadership from Samuel de Champlain, a well-known soldier and sailor from France . Champlain found Quebec in July 1608 “on a site commanding the way into the heart of North America” , it is here that Canada as we know it today would plant its roots. Champlain and the French continued to push through Canada and establish colonies much like the British did with what is now the United States. The political structure of early French Canada was much …show more content…
This Federal parliamentary system still exists today and is designed much like Great Brittan’s with a bicameral legislature and prime minister. Many people today think that Canada is not under the Queens rule but the Quebec resolution didn’t take them from under the Queens rule, it just established them as a self-governing colony of the British empire. Today however the Queen’s rule has no actual power, it is just a ceremonial thing and Canada is its own