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...? Canada is supposed to be a parliamentary system, but the judiciary and the executive exert undue power in contemporary Canadian politics. The establishment of parliamentary systems in countries worldwide aims to achieve the following target: to ensure that the rules of democracy will be adequately promoted. However, in practice, this is not the case. Often, interests related to individuals or to groups are involved in the governance of a country. The involvement in a country’s politics has been often opposite to the rules of democracy, a fact that is reflected to the reduction, even the elimination, of the power of parliament. This issue has also appeared in Canada. The country’s...
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...Western Alienation in Canadian Politics
Western alienation refers to a phenomenon occurring in Canadian politics. It is founded on the belief that the interests of western provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are not served by the Canadian political climate. Quebec and Ontario, central provinces, are fully represented in the senate and the House of Commons because they have a large population and hence vote rich (Alberta 2000, 39). This situation causes the western Canadians to feel disenfranchised and alienated from the main political process. The history of western...
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...Bill C-7 The senate is part of the federal parliament of Canada. Its role is technically similar to that of the House of Commons. All bills are passed by the senate before they can become laws. It is a house that poses the veto power over all bills emanating from the House of Commons. The members are appointed by the governor general through the prime ministers advice. It is a house that is undemocratic, full of patronage and retains residual powers of an age that has long passed-a phenomenon that has made the public to loathe it (Thompson 26). According to proponents of reforms, the way in which the system operates now. With twenty?four senators per region plus six assigned to Newfoundland and Labrador; does not reflect...
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...(Hogg p.631). The Canadian Constitution ironically, recognizes such legislations. Moreover, the federal government of Canada continues to strengthen and maintain the domination of Indian Act by adopting legislations that affect the Aboriginals’ human rights of determining and governing their own political future. The federal government also breaks the law by refusing to fairly, promptly, and equal address several cases of private or governmental theft of Aboriginal’s reserved land and resources. This undermines the rule of law and hinders the aboriginal people from getting their justice. Another aspect is the dishonor of treaties between the government and the Aboriginal...
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...the social values of Canadians, which is evident from the high percentage of support among the public. The law change to pro choice has enhanced the female experience of both unwanted and unviable pregnancy. Providing women with not just an alternative in a sometimes-impossible situation but also a chance to further their position in society.
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...to name and dispose of a monarch. The actual doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy can in fact be generally summarized in three points, which are as follows: “Parliament can make law concerning anything; no Parliament can bind its successor (that is, it cannot pass a law that cannot be changed or reversed by a future Parliament); and no body except the Parliament can change or reverse a law passed by Parliament” (Wikipedia, 2007).
One of the most central and major components of Canada’s government all in all is that of its Parliamentary system, and it is this system which truly frames the overall relationship between Canadian citizens and their political...
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...Cumulatively, Canadian intellectual property rights are contained in several difference types of property which include, trademarks, patents, copyright, “industrial designs, integrated circuit topography and plant breeders’ rights.”4 The breadth of the Canadian Intellectual property rights protection encapsulate the exclusive right of the licensed owner of intellectual property to permit others to use the protected property and to take steps to prevent unauthorized use of the protected property.5
Essentially a trade mark is a unique identifying element such as words and/or designs that distinguishes the product from any other.6 Canadian intellectual property laws...
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...Canadian Politics- Position Paper-Environment Introduction Climate change and its increasing impact on our environment is a growing concern worldwide. In Canada the environment has become a national issue since the turn of the new millennium. In the late twentieth century environment was not taken seriously, but over the last few years concern on climate has climbed rapidly, such that it ranks immediately after health care on the minds of the Canadian people. This climb in concern for the to make it an important national issue has resulted from the greater awareness of the consequences of not addressing the issue of rising temperatures, which is the result of irresponsible human activity...
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...International Penology/Canadian Law Roll No: Teacher: 26th March 2009 International Penology/Canadian Law Introduction
The state of the penal system in practice amongst many nation-states in our day and age is the product of centuries of evolution of man’s quest to come out with a systematic structure that seeks to among other things to bring deviance all forms of criminal deviance under absolute check. In doing this, there is also a guarantee of social respite as it were for social conformists. Of course, this has not been without massive debate as to the most ideal path to pursue in the quest to bring deviance under check. A critical point worthy of note is that central to all the divisive debates as to how to deal with deviance... is the...
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