Based on today's class, you can expect a quiz on the following --
1. How does a bill become a law in Canada? Use the links below to review the basic elements for the passage of a bill. (3 marks)
http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Reference/queens-e.html
http://www.fedpubs.com/subject/law/statutes.htm
2. Explain how Canada's system of government is an example of metropolitan control. (3 marks)
See the blog entry from Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Use the definition as supplied - and then apply some critical thinking to come up with some concrete examples of metropolitanism in our system of government. Use the following topics:
- representation by population in the House of Commons
- the appointment process - who appoints the Governor General? The Senate? The cabinet?
- the "equal representation" of the Senate (see the following link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of_Canada)
3. Explain how the railway is an example of metropolitanism where southern Ontario casts dominance over the rest of the country based on industrial production. (2 marks)
4. Who was Canada's first prime minister? (1 mark)
5. What is Confederation? (1 mark)6. Who were the provinces that originally joined in 1867? (2 marks)
7. What were the 4 major factors that led to Confederation? (4 marks)
OK...#3 is a critical thinking exercise for the quiz. Numbers 4-6 should be obvious...If not -- look them up. Number seven bears a bit of review:
- fear of US invasion after the Civil War
- trade problems (cancellation of the Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty - a free trade policy whereby products were allowed into United States without taxes or tariffs starting in 1854 - which was then considered to be beneficial for Canada, in 1865 by the United States, partly as a revenge against Great Britain for unofficial support of the South in the American Civil War)
- the railway (trade between the provinces required a railway that no one could afford by themselves)
- political problems (the Canadas - i.e. Quebec and Ontario were deadlocked. No one could form a majority government and things that needed to get done to move ahead couldn't get the political support required)
