Political Empowerment Research project

Introduction The politics of Canada function within a framework of democracy and a federal system of government with strong traditions. Canada is a government, in which the Monarch is head of state. The country has a multi-party system in which many of its practices derive from the unwritten conventions of and precedents set by Great Britain's Westminster Parliament. However, Canada has evolved its own system over the years. The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and the Conservative Party of Canada, however, as of the 2011 Election the New Democratic Party (NDP) has risen to prominence.

The Past GREAT SEARCH WEBSITE: Upper and Lower Canada had different rules before the confederation and ‘One Canada’ decided on a federal government to lead the way. The British Parliament made many decisions for Canada. /elections-to-remember/ /elections-to-remember/ FIRST NATIONS aandc.gc.ca/eng/ / https:// aandc.gc.ca/eng/ /

Confederation Confederationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_ Confederation The “Fathers of Confederation” are the men who attended one or more of the conferences at Charlottetown, Québec and London. For P.E.I., that includes: George Coles, A.A. Macdonald, Edward Palmer, W.H Pope, Col. John Hamilton Gray, T.H. Haviland and Edward Whalen. Despite hosting talks about Confederation, Prince Edward Island did not join the Dominion of Canada until 1873, when a crippling debt forced it into the national fold as the country's seventh province.

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Elections 2015 PROVINCIAL island-voteshttp:// island-votes FEDERAL tion_results_in_Prince_Edward_Islandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_elec tion_results_in_Prince_Edward_Island candidates-prince-edward-island/ candidates-prince-edward-island/ 03/article /P.E.I.-candidates-ready-for- federal-election/1http:// 03/article /P.E.I.-candidates-ready-for- federal-election/1 WHAT DO THEY DO? Provincial-and-Municipal-Responsibilities-AB.pdfhttp://civix.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Federal- Provincial-and-Municipal-Responsibilities-AB.pdf

Women’s Vote Women in Canada obtained the right to vote in a sporadic fashion. Federal authorities granted them the franchise in 1918, more than two years after the women of Manitoba became the first to vote at the provincial level. Agnes Macphail was the only woman in Canada to be elected to the House of Commons in 1921, the first year in which women had the vote (courtesy Library and Archives Canada).