Conservative Party of Canada

powers of both CSIS and the politics with regard to potential acts of terrorism. The Bill’s passage was remarkably controversial, supported only by the Canadian Progressive Conservative Party and the Liberal Party (who only supported the Bill with an aim to amend it). Indeed, it was so contentious that the New Democratic Party initiated a filibuster in an attempt to defeat it. Bill C-51 has been criticised by numerous agencies and…

Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act has undergone recent changes since 2015. These changes have resulted in many legal issues that violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, namely, those freedoms regarding section 2(b), the freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression. This paper will discuss the background of Bill C-51, its legal issues regarding the violation of section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as applying each issue to the Oakes Test to determine if there are…

Canada became the leading nation to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol in December 2011. Canadian government 's choice to discontinue its international commitment to the Kyoto Protocol will negatively impact Canada in the long term. Despite the many issues the Kyoto protocol has, it was the first serious step towards slowing global warming and was leading to progressive action on climate change.(source 1) Leaving the Protocol altogether was not the answer, Canada should have pushed through and if…

Since Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party rose to power, they have been proposing stricter gun control, such as repealing changes made by Bill C-42 that allow restricted and prohibited weapons to be freely transported without a permit, requiring enhanced background checks for anyone seeking to purchase a handgun or other restricted firearm, requiring firearms vendors to keep records of all firearms inventory and sales to assist police in investigating firearms trafficking and…

All the Canadian parliament parties have an interest in security. Since the Conservatives have passed Bill C-51, Anti-terrorism Act, there has been some controversy and dispute over the powers and agencies it establishes. The Bill was a response to some newly founded terrorist acts in Canada and the US. More importantly, Bill C-51 makes it illegal to promote terrorism and lowers the legal threshold required for police to arrest and detain suspected extremists without charge. It also allows…

parliament consisting of three essential elements which are the Crown, the Senate, and the House of Commons. The process for law making in Canada is through one federal, ten provincial and three territorial governments. Enacting laws is strictly done by the legislature that represents the Canadian people. The government is a representative government. Although Canada is a parliamentary democracy it is also a constitutional monarchy. Hence, Canada’s executive power rests in the Queen’s…

Democracy 3, a government simulation game, was designed by 2013. The game includes the factors with, such as economic policy, unemployment rate, welfare and so on. In this game, we can choose the countries that present in the menu, German, Canada, Australia, United Kindom and the United States; we can have an experience of being the country of a leader. Also, this game can let us participate indirectly in the regimes. One of a characteristic of the game is to make us feel concise without…

* Phony War * Period between 1939- 1940 * there was very little combat as both sides built up their armies and arsenals * Axis * Alliance between Germany, Italy and later Japan * The 'Blitz' * in September of 1940, bombings of London and other major cities occurred in what the British called `the Blitz` * Italian Campaign, 1943 * in July 1943, Canadian, British, and American forces launched an assault on the Italian island of Sicily * by…

discussions on whether marijuana should be decriminalized. Canada is divide on the issue of legalization, some individuals consider marijuana a hardcore drug which should remain illegal while others are convinced that not only is it not a drug but rather its medicine. When the Conservative party was in power under the leadership of Stephen Harper, there were little to no talks of legalization of marijuana but that changed when the Liberal party came to power. When Justin Trudeau was elected…

that make up the country of Canada make it very difficult to define the true Canadian identity. In a way to define what it is that truly makes up the Canadian identity is to say that one must envelop what their country stands for while at the same time finding meaning in what is not Canadian.…