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 Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:20 pm
lol I am curious of how other country's governments work for purposes of writing and curing boredom...
I kind of covered parliamentary systems in 10 minutes in highschool.... so all my information comes from British friends right now and this system sounds strange to me.
If anyone wants I can give a long and short version of the US government too, but I figure most of you know that by now lol.
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:24 pm
lol So I am guessing you don't want info. on the U.S. government. XD
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:38 pm
lol I know everything about our government by now... except maybe if you know how the committees work pin, that's the one area I'm unsure of
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:01 pm
XD
Yeah... haha... I do not... XD
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:21 pm
Okay, other than the stuff I was explaining to you last night, I really don't have a wonderful handle on politics. I'm going to email my best friend Andrew for you. He did three years of political studies and was offered a very nice internship with the gvernment (which he gave up to be a pastor, instead) so he'll be able to explain things better than I can.
There is another Chaser's sketch, though, that tried to explain our government to Americans...I'll see if I can dig it up.
Oh and, if she wishes to, the Queen can still dissolve our government if she wishes or the need arises. It was done a few years ago when the Liberal party was doing...pretty much what they're doing now - being awesome and blocking all the Labour bills from passing. So, through the governer-general, the government was dissolved and there were new elections. I believe that's the correct turn of events, but I'll double check with Andrew.
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:43 pm
the queen is a very interesting figure to me lol....
all this power and she doesn't do anything with it eek
yay thanks Chee!!!
I feel so educated when people show me this stuff blaugh
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:50 pm
WE ARE STILL ENGLANDS b***h!!!11!
lol I know more about the policies, ministers etc. involving the environment than anything else. I can try and give you more information i you want. In Australia everyone is required to vote or you will get a pretty reasonable fine. xp
Umm
The colonies became a federation on 1st Jan 1901 forming the Commonwealth of Australia
So we are now a constitutional democracy with a constitutional monarcy with a parlimentary system of government.
The Queen is still the Queen here and here representative is called the Governor General. He usually only uses his powers in extreme situations and on the advice of the Prime Minister. The most know event was the dismissal of the Witlam Government in 1975
3 branches of government:
The legislature: Commonwealth parliament - Queen, Senate, House of representatives, Governor general
The executive: Federal Executive Council - Prime Minister and Ministers of State
The judiciary: High Court, other federal courts
I'll add more later unless this is useless and boring XD
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:45 pm
sounds like what you get when you cross our government with Britian's.
add moreeeee
lol your country goes along with whatever Britain does? Is that what you mean? xd
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:54 am
Canada is a Constitutional Monarchy. In theory, the head of state is the Queen, and the next highest up is her representative (The Governer General). Without the say-so of the GG, nothing becomes law and no government may be formed.
They're figureheads. The last time a GG said "no" to a prime-minister about anything was 1925. The main power lies with the Prime Minister, who is the head of whichever party has the most seats in the House of Commons.
Our federal government is split into two main parts - the aforementioned House of Commons, and the Senate. Members of Parliment are elected to the House of Commons, in theory to represent one 'riding', or area - most but not all MPs are part of one of our various political parties. Unlike the USA we have more than just two parties.
Senators are appointed to the Senate by the Governor General (based off the recommendations of the Prime Minister). Once there, they're there for life. Any bill must pass through both the House of Commons and the Senate before it becomes law.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:21 pm
Wow, so Canada sounds similar to Australia but closer to Britain than Australia is...
wow senators for life must drive you guys nuts
eek
about how many seats are there?
in the USA we have dozens of parties, it's just only two of them have any real influence in national government. Occassionally independent party has a bit of say, but not usually more than just being a tiebreaker.
In California these parties are a pain in the a** actually, because they feed special interest groups which have an enormous amount of power in our state...
Like I know Green Party is pretty strong in some regions.
that's different though than the national level.
Only State and local government are influenced by anything other than republicans, democrats, and independents.
lol we have a strange chain of command thing going with states.
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:05 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:57 pm
Strangeness... I actually knew some of that, and the situations, just not dates and exactness... o_e;
Getting history teachers off-topic can still be education after all! 8D
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:06 pm
lol you know what's sad... I just now learned that the parliament building next to my hotel is like the state government for British colombia xd
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