Questions tagged [canada]
Questions related to the government or politics of Canada.
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Why are the federal, provincial and local political systems in Canada so much more separate than in other comparable systems?
American politics has seen a decline in split ticket voting
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Would there be a partisan advantage to allowing people aged 16 and 17 to vote?
The Liberal Party of Canada recently floated the idea lowering the voting age from 18 to 16. Canada's conservative circles have pushed back hard against the idea; one Twitter poll I can't find put ...
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What are the factors that may explain why there's a much higher cap set by Canada for Ukrainian temporary visa holders than Palestinians?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/gaza-visa-winnipeg-reaction-1.7076386
On Dec. 21, Marc Miller, Canada's federal minister responsible for
immigration and refugees, announced the new program to ...
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How can Quebec restrict immigration if it's part of Canada?
When the government announced its aggressive targets of up to 500,000
new immigrants a year, the province of Quebec, which gets to set its
own immigration limits, said it would not take in more than ...
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Why does Canada historically have a very high support for immigration?
In the US, where the number of migrants entering the country through
the southern border has reached an all-time high, there is overall a
concern about having more immigrants than there are jobs.
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What's causing the long wait times in the Canadian health care system?
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Canadian patients waited longer than ever this year for medical
treatment, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute,
an ...
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Have any governments run user-dissuasion campaigns concerning fentanyl? What were the outcomes?
Fentanyl overdoses present a unique problem to Canadian provinces and US states *.
While few want to return to Nancy Reagan's "just say no" **, it seems to me that the extremely deleterious ...
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Why doesn't Canada build housing to control the price of rent, given the country faces skyrocketing rent prices?
Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built and managed by the
Government of Singapore thorugh the Housing and Development Board
(HDB). The majority of the residential housing developments in
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Aside the United States, did any other country challenge Canada's claim of sovereignty in the Arctic?
Canada has had historic difficulty supporting its Arctic claims of
sovereignty due to the sparsity of population, remoteness, and
difficulty in effectively demonstrating administrative capacity. Most
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How does the Canadian support for Ukraine financially compare with other foreign involvements (Afghanistan etc.)?
Like their [US] brethren to the south, Canadian conservatives are now increasingly saying Canada is sending too much to Ukraine.
The percentage of Canadians who voted for the Conservative Party in ...
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Does the government of Canada have any say on how its provinces perform their paradiplomacy?
The ministry operates the Quebec Government Offices, de facto
embassies which serve as communication depots between the Government
of Quebec and governments outside of Canada. None of the offices in ...
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Are there other governments that broke promises to indigenous populations and might be liable to a lawsuit?
According to the Washington Post:
More than 170 years ago, before Canada confederated in 1867,
Indigenous people in what’s now Northern Ontario signed treaties,
ceding a vast territory north of Lake ...
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What are the benefits for the Canadian government to cede natural resources to the people of Nunavut?
And on Thursday, he inked his name to an agreement with the federal
government on that he hopes will open up more opportunities for coming
generations.
Akeeagok and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ...
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Why is swatting a thing only in North America?
Swatting, or the act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police response team to another person's address in the hope that harm comes to them by police violence. This is relatively ...
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Is Canada's Global Security Reporting Program a spy agency?
Is Canada's Global Security Reporting Program a spy agency? If not, what is it?
This Wikipedia article includes:
On June 19, 2020, the men were formally charged with spying on
national secrets and ...
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