“Everyone is =“🕊

Ayooo, I have not blogged at ALL this summer being busy with math and CLE, but, no worries, I have returned! But along with my return, something else also did! Yes, it’s the Canadian federal election, and our school also ran a school student vote. Later into the project, we would be making individual political parties with people who have similar believes and views like us, which in that case, we would need knowledge on Canadian politics. However, my big question for this post is “why are human rights and equality so important to us as Canadians?” to answer that question, let’s first take a look at a picture of the structure of the Canadian government I drew.

Now that you know more about democratic principles you might know why I think it links to the other principles. Canada is a Parliamentary democracy and a constitution monarchy meaning it’s ruled by a prime minister but the Queen is our head head of state and is guided by our constitution. All people livening in a democracy has guaranteed rights, Canadian charter rights and freedom ensures our freedom/ rights in Canada, meaning no one will have less privileges because of one’s race, religion, ethnicity, language, gender, or sexual orientation. Which means you would have the right the vote like everyone (Free and Fair Elections), you would have the rights to know all about the government before voting them (accountability and transparency), you can only be arrested if you did anything illegal (the rule of the law), you would have the rights to meet with you friends in public or the private (fundamental freedom), you have the right to protest (citizen participation). But how do we elect our governments? Well, Since we are a democracy which is a type of government where a majority of the people are included In political decision making. Citizens elect politicians through a vote to make decisions on their behalf, but if you must, Citizen are free to run for office and they have the protected rights like freedom of speech and religion. To farther understand the democratic principles, because human rights and equality really links to all the principles, let’s watch this video!

The candidates of the parties run for an election in each riding and anyone whose an adult could run for or participate. Speaking of there are actually three level of government : Federal, Provincial/ Territorial, Municipal. A Federal government is responsible for the entire country, handle all matter of national and international concern. Provincial/ Territorial government are responsible for their province or territory, and Municipal governments manage their city. we vote for representatives for each levels, they are then responsible for proposing, studying, debating, and voting on bills, which are potentially laws. All the others were mentioned in the drawing earlier.

Link to vid

Now that that’s cleared up maybe we can move on to things within and outside of Canada itself? Like maybe… whether or not we still need the Queen as the head of state. Check our friend Meg’s blog for another amazing blog!

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