1. What type of government does Canada have?
-Democratic, Constitutional Monarchy, Parliamentary Democracy
2. What is the role of government?
-to provide structure and organization to it's citizens, help provide order through laws, taxes and infrastructure
3. What is the role of the Governor General?
-represent the Queen in Canada
-She also signs bills into law, opens and closes parliament, reads thrown speech, is the ceremonial head of the military and head of state
4. What is significant about this Governor General?
-First Indigenous Governor General
5. Differentiate between representative democracy and direct democracy.
-representative democracy: people elect/vote for someone to represent them in a democracy
-direct democracy: every citizen votes on every decision
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Grade 10 bonus: define oligarchy
-where a few rich (often men) rule/form government
