This has had a significant impact on the role in Canadian politics. ... This includes selecting representatives from a specific region to be a part of our parliament and the ongoing policy making for the best interest of Canada.  ... One could argue this makes it extremely difficult to govern Canada as a whole. ... Canada's economic regions have played a vital role in the classification of regions. ... Another economic policy set in place was that of the Canada-US free trade agreement. ...

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The Holocaust is a disturbing and a shameful chapter in Canadian history. ... Louis in 1939 (Government of Canada, 2013). ... The vessel had been turned away by many countries and the last hope they had was to either settle in Canada or the United States, but Canada did not want the Jewish people travelling on the vessel. ... In 1938, after Kristallnacht had taken place, the Canadian Jewish parliament had arranged to sponsor 10,000 Jewish refugees to Canada and assure their financial support yet, the Government of Canada had rejected this proposal (The Quebec History Encyclopedia, 2006). ... ...

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A woman living in Canada is able to receive the procedure as it is provided by the Canadian government and funded by the provincial health care. ... History of Abortion in Canada In the year of 1969, the Canadian Parliament passed a law for the abortion procedure to be able to occur under certain circumstances, with the main reason being to protect the health of the mother, however, health was not defined nor was it limited to any particular ailment (Boland & Katzive, 2008). Following this law, Pierre Trudeau, minister of Justice, introduced a bill to ament Section 251 of the Criminal Code of ...

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Pearson launched the Royal Commission on the status of Women in Canada on February 3, 1967. ... As Canadians, this added an unbiased character trait to our Canadian Identity, especially when Prime Minister Lester B. ... Aware of the negative attention that this commission would receive, the Prime Minister did not respond because the press in Canada was very negative to the idea ("Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada", n.d.), although Pearson never abandoned the idea. All in all, due to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, the lives of many Canadian girl...

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Introduction This research paper will be focusing on the controversial issue of mandatory minimum sentences in Canada. ... History and Development A mandatory sentence is a fixed sanction prescribed by Parliament for committing certain crimes. ... Today, MMS affect over fifty offences in Canada and can be broken down into four distinct sections for clear understanding. ... The last category of MMS in Canada deals with hybrid offenses. The majority of these mandatory minimum sentences were implemented in the Canadian legislation in 1995. ...

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Pierre Elliot Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party, the 15th prime minister of Canada, professor and one of the most well-known Canadian politicians ever. ... Dating high profile women and driving fancy cars making him half Canadian celebrity half Canadian politician. ... Trudeau also played a very major role in uniting Canada as a country. ... In 1967 Canada's prime minister, Lester Pearson retired. ... From July 1867 to April 1982, the constitution of Canada remained an act of British Parliament. ...

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Parkes understood that this could not be achieved without a union of the colonies and he proposed that the colonial parliaments appoint a convention of leading men to " . devise the Constitution for a federal government with a federal parliament for the conduct of national business ..a parliament of two houses; a house of commons and a senate."... Later Parkes stated that Australia must learn from the example of Canada and the USA regarding national unity. ... Edmund Barton attempted to steer the commonwealth Bill through the New South Wales parliament. ... This was an original propo...

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Divorce In 1995, Statistics Canada data shows that 30% of marriages split (McGovern). ... Divorce was extremely uncommon in Canada until after WWII. ... Consequently, access to divorce in Canada was extremely limited until 1968. ... The broad trend in Canada was to make divorce easier. ... In an article written by Ronda MacCharles in the Toronto Star, stated that Parliament heard submissions that non-custodial parents -- often men -- are unfairly denied access to their children after a divorce. ...

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The Indian Act of 1869, issued by the Parliament of Canada, was influential in the oppression of the Aboriginal Metis women. ... Instead, there has been a steady increase in the youth suicide rate within the last fifty years in Canada. Specifically, Aboriginal people in Canada appear to be particularly vulnerable to suicide with rates exceeding those in the population at large. Furthermore, when standardized rates were compared, the risk of suicide was more than twice as likely to occur among Aboriginal people in Canada compared to non-Aboriginals. Perhaps risk factors such as oppression, pove...

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The white Protestants of Australia, Canada and New Zealand mattered much more to the post imperial British than the European continent, Marr identifies. ... In the UK, as Hogwood explains, the objection to a constitutional court centres on the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, by which the judiciary is constitutionally subordinate to parliament. (1997; pp.232) Britain is a country that is inordinately proud of its dynamic, flexible, unwritten constitution of which parliamentary sovereignty forms its cornerstone. ...

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Comparisons can be drawn between the Second Vatican Council and the modern day democratic governments such as that of the United Kingdom as well as Canada's very own parliament. The bishops could be compared to the Ministers of Parliament voting on issues and laws. ...

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They gave women the right to vote, took away the laws that had them wearing veils over their faces, and gave them the right to enter into parliament. ... There are two parts to the legislative branch of the government and they are the parliament and the Guardian Council of the Constitution, all legislation has to be approved by this branch of the government. ... With elections for many seats for Parliament and for the presidency coming up in 2004, these local council elections could be seen as a possible preview for a change in the party that has been in charge since the Islamic Revolution in ...

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Advances would first be made at the state level, and the party first won seats in the Bundestag, (the lower house of the German parliament), in 1983. ... The government experienced a crisis as some Green Members of Parliament refused to back the government's plan of sending soldiers to help with the 2001 U.S. ...

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This assembly represented self-government and was the first step towards a parliament in the Americas. ... Instead of finding this route, Hudson discovered parts of the Americas and present-day Canada. ... The French also established settlements in the Mississippi Valley, present-day Canada, and along the Gulf coast. ...

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Recently, it was proposed in Canada that same-sex marriage legislation would be made law. ... Paul Martin, Chrétien's replacement and Canada's present Prime Minister, said that his responsibilities as a Member of Parliament "take priority over his personal religious beliefs on same-sex marriage."" ...

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Countries like the US and Canada have been allowing these types of immigration for years and are ahead of the Germans by almost a decade in policy. ... (Cia.gov, 1999) Germany's unemployment rate is rather high compared to other countries such as Great Britain, Unites States, and Canada at 9.8% and rising very slowly. ... The Federal Assembly and equal members of each state parliament elect the president to 5-year terms, while the Federal Assembly elects the Chancellor to 4-year terms. ... GDP for 2001 in Germany was $1,873,854,000.00 and GNP (now referred to globally as GNI) was $1,...

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John Sinclair claims that the advertising expenditure here, per head of population, is better than France or Germany, and trails just behind Britain and Canada. ... Comparing this figure to figures in S, Cunningham's "Framing Culture", whereby it states countries like Britain, who are required to broadcast 80 to 85 per cent indigenous product and Canada around 60 per cent, we see that Australia's government quota is far from excessive. (1992; 59) It is from this 50 per cent that the distinct Australian cultural identity is maintained, or manufactured. ...

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Britain was totally against any such institution, thus depicting once again the animosity felt between the British Parliament and the United States. ... Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, under the North Atlantic Treaty in April 1949. ...

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A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the...

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When France ceded Canada and the Ohio River Valley to Great Britain, the British announced the Proclamation of 1763, "to prevent the colonists from rushing into territories vacated by the French and provoking conflict with the Indians",[Dig141]. ... In a letter from a Boston merchant named John Andrews to his brother in Philadelphia it says, "I sincerely believe they [the British Parliament] intend to carry out their threats, which are to make the town a desolate wilderness and the grass to grow in our streets....

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A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the...

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What have been the effects of the "War on Terror" on Australia's relations with South-East Asia? The "War on Terror" has generally improved Australia's relations with South-East Asia. The "war on terror" has brought about greater co-operation with Southeast Asian nations including Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand over counter-terrorism. However, there are still disagreements between Australia and other nations such as Malaysia has criticised Australia's involvement in the War on Terror and thus has damaged Australia's relationships in the region. Other S...

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