Liberal Party of Canada

The issue leading into the October Federal Election in Canada that I have chosen is the issue about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. This issue is and should be important to me and other citizens as we Canadians pride ourselves with our image of progressive tolerance. However, the alarming number of Indigenous women and girls attacked due to their ethnicities in this country contradicts this idea of Canada. The treatment of Indigenous peoples is the most shameful part of Canadian…

electoral and party systems have important implications in the Canadian political system, but their impact runs deeper than simply forming a new parliament every time an election takes place. The relationship the systems share has political and social impacts. Author Alan C. Cairns discusses the functions of the two systems and the effects they have on the electorate in his article “The Electoral System and the Party System in Canada, 1921-1965*.” The electoral system used in Canada is Single…

The Great Depression may lead into some bad outcomes, and that affected society, the economy, and the political parties. First it began at it’s economy where there was a large decrease in the economy by “The widespread poverty and suffering during the 1930s—the result of unemployment, drought and lack of a social safety net—transformed social welfare in Canada.”(The Great, 2008) This increase of poverty and unemployment resulted to difficult times for the people either the middle class which…

in October, with the Liberals concluding victorious under the “first past the post” electoral system. The Liberal party had surprised the voters with a victorious 39 percent vote, contrasting the expected Liberal minority supported by the New Democratic Party. It was expected that the Liberal party would not gain majority votes (over fifty percent), and they would negotiate with the New Democratic Party for support and in return promote their policies. Instead, the Liberal party had bewildered…

on October 19th; the six political parties involved will be vying for seats in the House of Commons deciding which parties will form the government for five years to come. This is important to discuss as a federal election can and will affect anyone and everyone. The six political parties, in order of popularity are: Liberal, Conservative, NDP, Bloc Quebecois, Green, and finally Libertarian. The main battle is between the three major parties with the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau coming out…

Gun Control In my personal opinion, I think that there should be more, stricter gun control laws in Canada. This ends that I agree with the NDP, Liberal party, and the Conservative party. They agree with pro-gun control and the registry. I do believe that people kill people, but if there were no guns in the killers’ possession there would be no victim. The liber part believes that everyone deserves a militia or the security guard, I agree with them. The NDP states that they want to track guns…

Michael Den Tandt's article: "Race to the middle: Rhetoric aside, the major parties have near unanimity on key policies" discusses the lack of ideological differences that exist amongst Canadian political party leaders in their upcoming election campaigns. He argues that the party platforms of the NDP, Liberals, and Conservatives are similar in that they all explicitly speak of the need to implement policies that support the middle class. The article argues that the votes usually come down to a…

“John A - Birth of a Country” improves the viewer’s understanding of historical events. The film talks a lot about Political Deadlock in the United Province of Canada. It is presented all throughout the movie. The main political parties in the United Province of Canada were the Conservatives, led by John A. Macdonald (Tories), and the Liberals (Grits), led by George Brown. And the rivalry between those…

choose their representatives in the federal and provincial elections. There are many voices in Canada and other places where the FPTP is used to change it with the Proportional Representation Systems, which the newly elected liberal government intends to change (Simonsen, 2005). The current federal government is not the only one that criticised the FPTP system but also the former prime minister of Canada Stephen Harper, ten years before he arrived to power, called the Canadian democracy a…

prime minister, Stephen Harper. Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician and the prime minister-designate of Canada. When sworn in, he will be the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history and the first child of a previous prime minister to hold the post;Trudeau is the eldest son of the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, and Margaret Trudeau. Trudeau was born in Ottawa and attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. He earned a BA in English…