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Rob Ford
is the 64th and current Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He was first elected to city council in the 2000 Toronto
municipal election, and was re-elected to his council seat in
2003 and again in 2006. In 2010, Ford was elected Mayor in
a hotly contested election, and took office on December 1.
TERM 2
House of Commons Canada
DEFINITION 2
is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the
Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the
Senate.[1] The House of Commons is a democratically
elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members
of Parliament (MPs)
TERM 3
Canada Senate
DEFINITION 3 The Senate consists of 105 members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister.[1] Seats are assigned on a regional basis, with each of the four major regions receiving 24 seats, and the remainder of the available seats being assigned to smaller regions. The four major regions are: Ontario, Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and the Western provinces. TERM 4
Stephen Harper
DEFINITION 4 (born April 30, 1959) is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became prime minister when his party formed a minority government after the 2006 federal election. He is the first prime minister from the newly reconstituted Conservative Party, following a merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties. TERM 5
NDP Canada
DEFINITION 5 The New Democratic Party, commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada.The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22,
- The provincial wings of the NDP in Manitoba and Nova Scotia currently form the governments in those provinces
Liberal Party Canada
is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the
conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the
centre and the centre-left.[2] Historically the Liberal Party
has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative Party and
to the right of the New Democratic Party (NDP)
TERM 7
Conservative Party of Canada
DEFINITION 7 is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum. The party came to power in the 2006 federal election as a minority government, a position it maintained after the 2008 election, before winning its first majority government in
- The current party leader is Stephen Harper, who has been the Prime Minister of Canada since 2006. TERM 8
Bloc Quebecois
DEFINITION 8 is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founder Lucien Bouchard was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. The BQ seeks to create the conditions necessary for the political secession of Quebec from Canada and campaigns actively only within the province during federal elections. TERM 9
Green Party Canada
DEFINITION 9
The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political
party founded in 1983 with 10,000-12,000 registered
members as of October 2008. The Greens advance a broad
multi-issue political platform that reflects its core values of
ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and
non-violence.
TERM 10
sovereignty-association
DEFINITION 10
The Quebec sovereignty movement refers to both the
political movement and the ideology of values, concepts and
ideas that promote the secession of the province of Quebec
from the rest of Canada.
The Vertical Mosaic
Canada is probably not unlike other western industrial nations in relying heavily on its elite groups to make major decisions and to determine the shape and direction of its development. The nineteenth-century notion of a liberal citizen-participating democracy is obviously not a satisfactory model by which to examine the processes of decision-making in either the economic or the political contexts... If power and decision-making must always rest with elite groups, there can at least be open recruitment from all classes into the elite. (p. 558). TERM 17
CBC Canada
DEFINITION 17 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster. Although some local stations in Canada predate CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936 TERM 18
CanCon
DEFINITION 18 refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requirements that radio and television broadcasters (including cable and satellite specialty channels) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada. It also refers to that content itself, and, more generally, to cultural and creative content that is Canadian in nature. TERM 19
2.5 party system
DEFINITION 19
In Canada, a third party usually refers to a relatively small
federal or provincial political party that is not usually
considered to have a realistic chance of forming a
government, but has representation in the federal House of
Commons or the provincial legislature.
TERM 20
Reform Party
DEFINITION 20
The Reform Party of British Columbia (Reform BC) is a
populist right wing political party in British Columbia,
Canada.
Canadian Alliance
The Canadian Alliance, formally the Canadian Reform
Conservative Alliance (), was a Canadian conservative
political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was
the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its
position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons
and held it throughout its existence.
TERM 22
Queen v. Oakes
DEFINITION 22
1 S.C.R. 103 is a case decided by the Supreme Court of
Canada which established the famous Oakes test, an
analysis of the limitations clause (Section 1) of the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms that allows reasonable
limitations on rights and freedoms through legislation if it can
be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
TERM 23
notwithstanding clause
DEFINITION 23 Section Thirty-three of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is part of the Constitution of Canada. It is commonly known as the notwithstanding clause (or "la clause drogatoire" in French), or as the override power , and it allows Parliament or provincial legislatures to override certain portions of the Charter. As such, it is a controversial provision
