Political Parties in Canada

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This paper discusses the political make-up in Canada, focusing on the political parties that make up the government. The paper examines the role within government of the non-Canadian un-elected monarch, who is currently the Queen of England. The paper looks at the ongoing discussion in Canada about ways to make the country more a democracy and to protect the democratic institutions that have been created.

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"The system for both domestic and foreign policy issues tends to be a pluralist democracy even as leaders promote the idea of a representative democracy. The system is unjust because it ignores or devalues millions of people, perhaps the majority of the citizenry, while responding to the loudest groups either in terms of those spending more money or those making their views heard most clearly. At the same time, it is difficult to see how it could be otherwise at the federal level, the sheer size of which reduces the link between elected representatives and the people they serve. Leaders will always respond more readily to the constituents they hear than to those who do not make their views known, and this necessarily means public interest groups and elites that make their views known will have more power."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Citizen Participation and Canadian Democracy: An Overview." August 2003. April 2, 2007. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:hPbdlmyhs48J:www.cric.ca/pwp_re/cric_studies/citizen_participation_and_cdn_democracy_aug_2003.ppt+canada+democracy+%22political+parties%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=us.
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