Essays Tagged: "Government of Canada"

Homosexuality, Morality, and Human Rights

'closet' has moved to the forefront of homosexual individuals when it used to be the exception. The Government of Canada has recently passed law making it illegal to discriminate against an individual ... making it illegal to discriminate against an individual's sexual preference. With this in mind, the government would then require all facets of society, including religious communities, to welcome the ...

(7 pages) 544 6 3.2 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

The Structure of the Canadian Government

The Structure of the Canadian GovernmentCanada's "Fathers of Confederation" adopted a federal form of government in 1867. A federa ... ederal state is one that brings together a number of different political communities under a common government for common purposes and separate regional governments for the particular needs of each re ... recognized political party and the party that wins the largest number of seats ordinarily forms the government. Its leader is asked by the Governor General to become Prime Minister.The real executive ...

(4 pages) 114 0 3.9 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Canadian Senate

Canadian SenateBy Andrew DonoghToday the Canadian Senate does not do all that much for the Canadian government. It no longer does the job that it was created to do. It barely stops any bills that go t ... tops any bills that go through. They're paid a lot of money to just sit and do nothing.The Canadian Government could work fine without the Senate. Just get rid of it, and have the governor look at the ...

(1 pages) 37 0 2.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Goverment in our lives today.

Opinion PaperMany people believe that the government is an essential part of every day life. They agree with this business like and privatised ... ney for it. But the average Canadian cannot keep up with high taxes and "business" like view of the government for the high paid corporate business owners, they're high in solely and very persuasive w ... n solely and very persuasive with government friends. These kind of people can handle the amount of government in their lives but for the average Canadian the government has become too close for comfo ...

(2 pages) 59 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Foreign domestic workers

ed specified work conditions and if they not coincide with the rules and regulations of the federal government these employers would be denied future domestic workers. This however, still allows emplo ...

(4 pages) 38 0 2.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

An analysis of the metophorics themes in the book "Obasan" written by Joy Kogawa

r World War II the Japanese-Canadians were being mistreated by the white Canadians and the Canadian government. In Joy Kogawa's novel Obasan, Ms. Kogawa tells us the story of Naomi's family through a ... ered in feces" (172) describes what the white Canadians did to the Japanese-Canadians. The Canadian government tried to get rid of the Japanese-Canadians by sending them to concentration camps and gho ...

(4 pages) 46 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

The American Presidential System vs. The Canadian Parliamentary System

Governments play a large part in our lives. We are so used to their role, that much of their influen ... untry to country, but their influence remains. Canada is a democracy with a parliamentary system of government. The United States of America is also a democracy but with a presidential system of gover ... te and the House of Commons. In the Canadian parliamentary system the Prime Minister is the Head of Government and is also a member of the House of Commons. The Prime Minister is the leader of the win ...

(8 pages) 146 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Government of Canada - Climate Change Submission

Introduction1.1 There is broad agreement in Canada, among all levels of government as well as business leaders and the public, that the health and well being of future gene ... of debate has been whether or not this should be done in the context of the Kyoto Protocol.1.2 The Government of Canada believes that Canada should support the Kyoto Protocol because it provides the ... Kyoto Protocol in December 2002.1.3 In determining how to meet its climate change commitments, the Government of Canada established two important conditions. First, there must be a workable plan. And ...

(13 pages) 61 0 4.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Improving Air Quality - Government of Canada

ease the number of facilities reporting to 7000 by 2005 from 2100 today.* On February 19, 2003, the Government of Canada announced the "greenest" federal budget in Canadian history. With respect to ai ... ederal budget in Canadian history. With respect to air quality, the Budget clearly demonstrates the Government's strong commitment to achieve cleaner air for all Canadians: it provides $40 million, ov ...

(17 pages) 70 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Were Canada's treaties with the Native peoples freely negotiated?

anada's treaties with the Native peoples were not extremely freely negotiated.Firstly, the Canadian government's intention of the treaty was quite well-known. Obviously, they wanted to take the land w ... achieve their ambitious goal, they took advantage of the decay of the bison. Clearly, the Canadian government knew what the natives thought: they were losing their main source of food and they were w ...

(1 pages) 12 0 0.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Immigration Law-The National Gatekeeper

may cost us Cnadians millions of dollars to perform these precautions but we are confident that our government is doing whatever they can for the safety of millions of Canadians.The health condition o ...

(3 pages) 1081 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

American Media In Canada

ians knowing a lot more about Americans than our southern allies know about us. The Canadian government has made steps to preserve what little programming is produced with Canadian blood, sweat ... ns not to invest outside the snowy boundaries of this great country. Although the intentions of the government are in the interest of the people of Canada, they are missing the entire point of enterta ...

(2 pages) 1500 0 3.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays

THE WAR OF TWO COUNTRIES

es' lives in order and peaceful, but when is the line drawn? The anti-terror bill that our Canadian government has made will allow police to arrest suspected terrorists and force them to answer questi ... lims or innocent Afghanis; however, these prejudice implications remain due to the war.The Canadian Government must make laws and fight in the war to send a message to terrorists. However, terrorists ...

(2 pages) 13 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Animals

rice of pelts had fallen, so it was not financially viable to hunt seals. That is when the Canadian government opted to boost the industry by artificially raising the price of seal products by paying ... products in order to dismiss the idea that seal corpses are wasted. I am positive that without the government subsidies, sealing would not be commercially viable. With all this hype the percentage ar ...

(2 pages) 1334 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Canadian Constitutional Rights And Freedoms

I would be sure to fix section 91(3) in a manner which would place more limitations on the federal governments nearly unlimited taxation powers. I do not feel as though it is necessary for the federa ... re 'independent' and not so dependant on Canada's national treasury, this is because of the Federal Governments superior taxation powers. Another area which I believe could use some modifications is t ...

(2 pages) 1189 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science