Liberal 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…

SSection 1: Causal Reasoning Passages: 1) In the first passage the writer 's uses a general causal claim –that is indirectly quoted “recent study showed that students who cram immediately before examinations usually get lower grades than those who do not.” The writer correlates the causal claim with the sentence “Well, I certainly won’t make that mistake this term!” commits an error in causal reasoning by inferring that if he/she would open a book during exam period that this would result in a…

I'm Muhammad and we are the 2 brown boys. In today's show we will be covering Politics, Rights, Immigration, Peacekeeping, Quebec in Canada and Cold War, but let's start off with some entertaining music, Tunak Tunak Tun by Daler Mehndi. Saad: Ahh, that was some good music, now on a much more serious note, politics have been an issue throughout the years in Canada. Before 1970, woman had a tough time due to the male dominant workforce. Women were largely underrepresented in politics, only 67…

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…

types of the tax credits toward specific groups of taxpayers like tax credits for service club members proposed by Stephen Harper 's Conservative Party and tax credits targeted towards school teachers of up to 15% of one thousand dollar annual expenditure out of their own pocket for buying classroom supplies proposed by Justin Trudeau 's Liberal Party. Harper believes that "citizens, not bureaucrats, know best how to invest in their own communities". He thinks the service club members of local…

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a trade agreement between the states of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The document was signed in 1992 by the President of the United States George Bush, the President of Mexico, Salinas and the Prime Minister of Canada Mulroney. The United States didn’t sign NAFTA into law until 1993, when Bill Clinton signed the treaty into law. The treaty passed the US House of Representatives by a 234 to 200 and the US Senate by a margin of 60 to 38…

Childcare in Quebec and the rest of Canada vary significantly. The variation is very extreme, whereas families in Quebec are spending approximately $152 per month on childcare, and families in other provinces are budgeting over $1000 monthly. Why such a huge difference when all these families are residing in the same country? Some families are budgeting all their income towards childcare, but other families are only contributing not even a quarter of their income. What is behind all this? Many…

government’s laws being struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada. Conversely, the appeal of Frank v. Canada was a victory for the Conservative government – although the impugned legislation had been enacted over a decade before Harper became Prime Minister. It is still possible for the challenged sections of the Canada Elections Act to be declared unconstitutional, however, as the case is being appealed in the SCC. How the current government of Canada, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,…

Lord Durham was a politician who was sent to Canada to investigate the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions. He was appointed the governor general, and this made it possible for him to be in the position to get findings and report on them and at the same time provide recommendations. Lord Durham activities have been able to be criticized by other historians, and so this has been able to raise questions on his work. The main question was, is Lord Durham a racist or a Democrat? This was brought up…

The combination of international economic crisis, drought, and political unpreparedness left many Albertans in a predicament due to a cycle of deficiency. First came the drought. Entire crops were ruined due to the drought, eventually not producing enough grain to repleshing seed supplies. Getting money from the banks to replace seeds was difficult, the provincial government was nearly impossible, while getting it from the federal government was overly bureaucratic, meaning if a farm ran out of…