Democracy is a form of government that gives the people who are ruled by its laws and policies certain rights over the actions and careers of those in power. Canada operates on democratic principles. Citizens in the representative democracy such as Canada allow elected representatives to make decisions on their behalf. The main principles of democracy are equality and freedom. All citizens are considered to be equal because everyone follows the same law and this shows that no one is above the law
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Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Canada Name Institution Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Canada Question #1 The chief aim of this paper is to contrast and compare anti-Semitism in Canada – predominantly modern Canada – with different forms of racism. For instance‚ the most popular practice of anti-Semitism in Canada is Zionism and nationalism. Most considerations of anti-Semitism in Canada and of the Jewish community more usually‚ have taken place separately from typical
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Youth gangs in Canada is becoming more and more of issue. Adolescents across Canada resort to joining youth gangs for many different reasons. A youth gang is a group of young adolescents who use intimidation and violence to gain prestige among other gangs and control certain areas of unlawful activities. For all the reasons an adolescent would join a youth gang‚ police and the Government have come up with programs to prevent youth from joining and to get them to leave the gangs. With programs involving
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rate is growing in Canada‚ and we need physical education to keep us healthy for the rest of our lives. Studies have also shown that physical education is not only important for your health‚ but it can also affect student’s academic achievements‚ by a huge number. Let’s compare this. The kids are the face of Canada’s healthy community right now. Suppose‚ if physical education was optional and most students chose not to take physical education and they get less healthy. Canada wouldn’t be a healthy
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In 2017‚ Canada announced their plan to fill a 300‚000 quota number of incoming immigrants. That is a large number and appears like Canada is showing such openness for incoming immigrants. But this innocuous sentence can be problematic. It can be difficult to gage the problems of Canadian perception of immigration when one’s family arrived in the country several generations ago and now identify as a native Canadian. The word “quota” is problematic in describing immigration for its inferred meaning
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Holocaust is obtained from the Greek words “completely burnt.” This topic may seem as if it does not relate to Canada in any sense‚ but the reality is that it does! We as Canadians could have played a role in saving the lives of millions of people but instead we became one of the reason that some of these people were killed in the first place. Yes‚ it is true that Hitler gave the U.S‚ Britain‚ Canada and many other nations the chance to take in Jewish refugees and essentially save their lives‚ but we did
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According to Keynesian methodology‚ there are two powerful tools the government and The Bank of Canada can employ to direct the economy in a positive direction: fiscal and monetary policy. Both policies‚ when used correctly‚ can be employed to stimulate the economy during times of recession or slow down the economy during times of inflation. The effectiveness of government intervention in the economy in the long and short run through fiscal and monetary policy has been the subject of controversy
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universal childcare means all around childcare‚ not only in a general sense‚ but all over the map childcare. Most people don’t see a problem with childcare in Canada‚ but it seems as if there are some issues pertaining to the system of childcare in Canada. “In a country of close to five million children of 0-12 years of age‚ Canada now has fewer than 900‚000 regulated childcare spaces. The percentage
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Aboriginal people are the natives of Canada; the people who lived here before anyone else settled. Therefore‚ when new settlers arrived they sometimes had to fight to get what belonged to them. This has not changed today. After the 1980s‚ Aboriginal people have only been somewhat successful in having their issues such as self-government‚ social conditions‚ land claims‚ and residential schools addressed. Self-government is one of the issues that the First Nations have been moderately successful
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Homelessness in Canada Homelessness is not an error of people‚ caused by their characteristics or mistakes‚ but instead‚ by society ’s and governments ’ actions or failures to act in the areas of poverty‚ deinstitutionalization‚ and the shrinking supply of affordable housing. At the root of homelessness is poverty‚ and the growing number of poor is leaving many without shelter‚ or a roof over their heads. Deinstitutionalization was originally seen as an appropriate way to maximize resources‚ but
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