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- 1. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD Click Once to Begin JEOPARDY! Parliament Hill
- 2. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD JEOPARDY! 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500 Government Branches Constitution House of Commons Prime Minister Senate Bills and Their Numbers
- 3. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The branch of government that debates bills.
- 4. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The two branches where elected officials are found.
- 5. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The branch of government that interprets laws.
- 6. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The non-elected workers who include government advisors.
- 7. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The biggest branch in terms of people.
- 8. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The common name of Canada’s first constitution.
- 9. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The sections of the of the Constitution that identify the separation of federal and provincial responsibilities.
- 10. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The 1982 document that protects Canadians from abuses by the government or its agents.
- 11. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The reason even the monarch must respect the Constitution and other laws of Canada.
- 12. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The level of government that will likely regulate Canadian space tourism when it takes off.
- 13. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The other name for the House of Commons.
- 14. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The common name for the area that is home to those who elect a member of parliament.
- 15. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The name of the MP who has an adjustable seat and gets to break ties during votes.
- 16. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The number of people who vote in each constituency.
- 17. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The name for the MPs who are not in the cabinet or the opposition’s shadow cabinet.
- 18. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD He or she leads the party that has the most seats in the house of Commons.
- 19. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The person in government who chooses the members of the cabinet.
- 20. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The person who has the de facto power in Canada. Daily Double!!!
- 21. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The person who chooses the date to call a federal election.
- 22. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The person who gives royal assent to the laws of Canada and could legally block the actions of a rogue PM.
- 23. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The other name for the Senate.
- 24. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The reason the Senate is not termed “responsible government.”
- 25. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The “alcoholic” role of Canada’s Senate.
- 26. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD Equal Elected Effective
- 27. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The name of the document read in the Senate by the monarch, (or GG) that outlines the government’s agenda for that session of Parliament.
- 28. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The minimum total number of readings a bill gets before it is passed.
- 29. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The reading where the most debate and the first vote occurs.
- 30. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The reading that has no debate.
- 31. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The “smallest” debate occurs there.
- 32. Template by Bill Arcuri,WCSD The name of a bill not proposed by the governing party.
Editor's Notes
- #5 Legislative Branch
- #6 The legislative and executive branches (the PM and cabinet are elected MPs in the executive branch)..
- #7 Judiciary
- #8 Public service
- #9 The executive – it includes 450,000 public servants employed in over 200 departments.
- #10 The 1867 BNA Act .
- #11 Section 91 – federal; Section 92 – provincial; Section 93 - shared.
- #12 The Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
- #13 Canada is a constitutional monarchy – no one is above the law of the land.
- #14 Federal: the Constitution outlines how the federal gov’t assumes all residual powers
- #15 Lower House
- #16 A riding (the formal name is constituency)
- #17 The speaker
- #18 One hundred thousand
- #19 Back benchers
- #20 Prime Minister
- #21 Prime Minster
- #22 Prime minister
- #23 Prime minister
- #24 Governor general
- #25 Upper House
- #26 Senators are appointed by the GG on the recommendation of the PM.
- #27 Sober second thought – to act as a check valve for the bills passed by the lower house.
- #28 The 3 Es of the triple-E Senate
- #29 The speech from the throne
- #30 Six: three in each house.
- #31 Second reading.
- #32 The first reading.
- #33 Very little debate occurs after Committee during the Third Reading, prior o the final vote.
- #34 Private member’s bill