Conservative Party of Canada

Swedish political parties have pushed for gender parity since the 1970’s, and generally “adhere to the 60/40 principle: neither sex is to have more than 60 percent nor less than 40 percent of representation within party ranks” (Wicks and Lang-Dion, 2008, pg. 36). The principle is not formally legislated; rather, it is expected from political parties by the public and thus essential for a party’s electoral success (Wicks and Lang-Dion, 2008). In Iceland, the Althingi created a multi-party…

French – English Relations in Canada RenéLévesque was quite fond of using analogies and metaphors to describe political issues. One such example was when he compared the Canadian French-English relations to an unhappy marriage. Honestly, there was no better way of describing the issues between the two and the stages that they went through. Suppose that English Canada was the husband and French Canada was the wife. There were several situations in which the wife was degraded, the husband was…

Relatively speaking, Canada is a country that has managed to keep gun violence to a minimum rate compared to other countries. However, the acts of one man on a murderous rampage sparked an outrage that lead to the development of the Long Gun Registry with the hope that it would diminish the availability of weaponry to criminally minded individuals. The Long Gun Registry was not successful in targeting criminals, as it actually only targeted law abiding citizens and homicide rates actually…

Introduction The following pages will discuss pride parade performance in the past and today. The history of where pride parades began and the impacts of performance and corporatization in North America. Pride Parades through time have changed dramatically. What once was used as a means of protest and a riot used for the protection and fight for people’s human rights, in North American culture, has turned into a celebration. The people who are present range from “visitors to pride parades line…

America is not the Greatest Country is the first episode of HBO’s new television series The Newsroom. A news anchor, Will McAvoy, is seated between a strong liberalist, Susan, and a conservative, Lewis, on a journalism panel. When asked to describe why America is the greatest country from a student in the audience the anchor envisions someone in the audience using cue cards telling him, “It isn’t.” This persuades him to give his true opinion, and the anchor continues with a speech about why he…

Constitution Act, 1982. The Meech Lake Accord was a set of constitutional amendments designed to persuade Quebec to accept the Canada Act. The accord was proposed by both Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa. The failures of Meech Lake have had vast impacts on conduct of current day politics, as well as describe the interprovincial relationships in Canada. Throughout this paper I will argue that demand for the Distinct Society clause by Quebec had an exclusionary…

introducing a point-based system to their immigration laws. The United States immigration system has been suffering from current inefficiencies and slow processes, which has damaged the nation’s appeal for foreign talent. After the years of success Canada has made since introducing a point-based immigration policy in 1967, much support for introducing this system has been made by Washington. If Great Britain changes to a point-based immigration system any current EU citizen working and living in…

votes written as an editorial in the Toronto Star, emphasizes middle class families being a target on political agendas, rather those living in poverty for the upcoming 2015 federal election. There has been street protests in 50 communities across Canada to express the urge to build a national anti-poverty campaign, which politicians have not been discussing. Although, over time there has been a noticeable gap between the rich and poor, as within the past 25 years, incomes for the poorest 10%of…

There is a huge contrast in between both presidential candidates mentality. The Democratic party seems to be more conservative than the Republican party in many ways. In one side, we have Mrs. Hillary Clinton. She is known to be a very presidential lady with a polite personality. This candidate feels comfortable with running America the same way we been doing it. The traditional matters are important to keep, and not many changes are needed. In the other side, we have Mr. Donald Trump. Mr. Trump…

Canada, among other countries was hit the hardest by the Great Depression and suffered substantial losses. Their government failed to provide adequate means of support in time, trade dropped significantly, and the employment rates and the economy were at an all-time low; causing a large number of actions to be taken by citizens to stand up for what they believed they needed. The Great Depression began on October 29, 1929 and would last for 10 years until the Second World War. Canada was faced…