Sponge Activity

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Sponge Activity

• Compromise
• You have two minutes to write everything you
  know, or any notions you have of the word
  compromise.

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What is Compromise?
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Definitions of Compromise

• 1) A beautiful way to solve the issues and
  problems peacefully through straight forward
  conversation. The Urban Dictionary.
• 2) Settlement of differences by arbitration or by
  consent reached by mutual concessions. Merriam
  Webster Dictionary
• 3) To compromise is to make a deal where someone
  gives up part of, or all of its demand. Wikipedia

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Peace, Order, and Good Government..

• Eh?

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Canada has a Parliamentary Government.
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Question Period

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqTvv_M6LL1sfeature
  related

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• Question Time Part II
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vi5jUBLTqZoIfeature
  related
• What do you think?
• Is this anyway to run a country?
• Where is the peace, order OR good government?

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Compare

• Lets recall how the United States does it.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vRkzetto7xGA
• Are we more civilized?
• Do we actually accomplish much with our
  civility?
• How do you disagree with a friend or family
  member?
• What works? How do you hash out your differences?

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• Canadas
• System
• Of
• Government
• Westminister
• Style of Responsible Government

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How does it work?

• The head of Canadas executive branch is the king
  or queen of the United Kingdom, entrusted with
  powers over the legislative and judicial
  branches. Historically, this position is honorary
  rather than enforced, though should they decide,
  the monarch could assert considerable power over
  Canada. As they are geographically quite far
  apart, the monarch appoints a Canadian
  governor-general to oversee the executive powers.
  Although the executive branch typically bows to
  the will of parliament and the constitution, it
  does so by tradition rather than law.
• The governor-general appoints the prime minister,
  who is the head of the federal Canadian
  government. The prime minister is almost always
  chosen from whichever party holds a majority in
  the house of commons, however if no party holds a
  majority, they are usually appointed from the
  party with the most members. Though the prime
  minister cannot be removed from office, the House
  of Commons can pass an act of no confidence in
  the government, which will generally result in
  the resignation of the prime minister and his
  cabinet.
• The legislative branch of the Canadian government
  is bicameral, meaning it has two houses of
  legislative power. The appointed house is called
  the Senate, and members are selected by the
  governor-general with the advice of the prime
  minister. The elected section of legislative
  government is called the House of Commons, and is
  chosen by democratic election procedures every
  five years. Though in theory both branches are
  roughly equal in power, the House of Commons
  generally wields the most power in the Canadian
  Government and introduces considerably more bills
  to Parliament.
• Canadas federal judicial system oversees all
  criminal law, as well as maintaining a Supreme
  Court appointed by the governor-general. Civil
  law is monitored using the principles of British
  common law, except in Quebec, where a French code
  is followed. The Supreme Court consists of nine
  judges, and is used as a last resort court
  system, when a case cannot be adequately
  completed by lower courts.
• The constitution of the Canadian government was
  created in 1867 as an Act of the British
  parliament. In 1982, the constitution was amended
  to give Canada political independence from Great
  Britain, although the monarch still retains
  executive powers. Additionally, the 1982
  amendment contained an outline of political
  rights and freedoms for citizens, similar to the
  ten-part Bill of Rights that begins the American
  constitution.

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Group Work

• Using prior knowledge from your reading last
  night on Canada Northern Neighbor Government
  pg. 41-51 and using How Canadians Govern
  Themselves Parliamentary Government pg 3-6 as
  reference tools design a graph outlining how
  Canadas Parliamentary System works.
• You will create your own diagram, and then move
  into your pair share group to discuss.

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Exit Ticket

• On an index card analyze how a Prime Minister is
  selected to be the Canadian Head of Government.
• Rubric
• 4 4 correct points
• 3 3 correct points
• 2 3 points, but not all correct
• 1 1 or 2 correct points

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Homework

• Go online and find an example of Question Time or
  a Canadian Parliamentary issue. Load it on your
  thumb drives or email to me for presentation to
  the class tomorrow!