1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 ISMS & Ideology Federal Gov’t Canada’s Democracy Voting Issues Human Rights

2. The set of rules that is fundamental to a democracy.

3. What is a constitution?

4. The “father” of communism.

5. Who is Karl Marx?

6. The ideology that promotes government provision of services such as health care, education, welfare, etc.

7. What is socialism ?

8. The first world leader to use the term “fascism” to describe a government ideology.

9. Who was Benito Mussolini?

10. The ideology that falls farthest left on the political spectrum

11. What is “communism”?

12. Canada’s current representative of the monarch.

13. Who is the Governor General: David Johnston?

14. The number of people that constitute one riding in Canada.

15. What is 100 000?

16. Our MP (for Okanagan/Coquihalla).

17. Who is: Dan Albas?

18. The 3 official parties in Canada’s parliament AND their leaders.

19. What/who are: Conservative – 167 (Stephen Harper) NDP – 102 (Thomas Mulcair) Liberal – 34 (Justin Trudeau)

20. Describe the inequity in Voting with Canada’s “first past the post” system

21. The party that wins the majority of seats does not necessarily have the majority of the “popular vote”

22. The form of government whereby all citizens vote on every decision. (We don’t do this in Canada)

23. What is a “direct democracy”?

24. The system in which our government is divided into three levels AND those levels.

25. What is “federalism” and -federal government -provincial government -municipal government?

26. Members of the governing party who are not in cabinet.

27. Who are “backbenchers”?

28. The 3 controversies surrounding Senate positions.

29. What is: 1. Lack of Specific Qualifications 2. Patronage 3. Representation by Population?

30. What the 3 E’s stand for in the proposed “Triple E Senate”.

31. What are: Elected Equal Effective

32. What is an order in council?

33. A law that is passed without a parliamentary vote.

34. List the steps, in order, of the process towards a federal election in Canada.

35. 1.Dissolution 2. Enumeration 3. Nomination 4. Campaigning 5. Voting/balloting 6. Tabulating

36. A vote on a specific political issue by citizens.

37. What is a referendum?

38. This politician has won her party’s first ever seat in the House of Commons. Name her, and the party.

39. Who is the Green Party’s Elizabeth May of Saanich/Gulf Islands?

40. The two political ideologies we studied that in history have been totalitarian governments.

41. What are: Fascist Communist?

42. This allows governments to pass a law that violates our Charter of Rights.

43. What is the “notwithstanding clause”?

44. This is the formula for making changes (amendments) to our constitution.

45. “7 + 50%” 7 of the provinces constituting 50% of the population must agree to the changes.

46. 3 Fundamental Freedoms from our Charter.

47. What are freedom of: -conscience -religion -belief -expression -speech -press -peaceful assembly -association

48. What it means to “prorogue” parliament.

49. To suspend parliament for a period of time until the opening of another session.

50. The 3 principles of civil disobedience.

51. 1.Should not involve violence 2. should be directed against laws that are seriously harmful 3. it requires taking responsibility for one’s own actions – willingness to take punishment.

52. Political Cartoon analysis

53. The cartoon’s bias is that the National Rifle Association, in the event of a gun related tragedy in the USA, will run to the press with a bunch of “balderdash”, or excuses that make gun control seem irrelevant to the issue.