Civics

• Canadians choose their gov’t by voting in elections
• Types of elections


  Federal, provincial and municipal
• Voting areas are…


  Ridings or constituency
• Ridings are scattered throughout Canada
• There are 338 federal ridings
• Canadians vote for 338 MPs
• MPs are…


  Members of parliament
• What happens when they win?

  Go to Ottawa in the House of Commons( parliamen).
• How many candidates are there?

  4-5 per each party( liberal, conservativ, NCP, Green, bloc(quebec))
• Inside riding there are polling stations
• Polling station is where people go to vote.
• The Prime Minister is Justin Trudeau
• MPs mean..


  Member of parliament
• Candidate who wins becomes the MP of that riding
• The party that has the most votes 


  becomes the GOVERNMENT
• Strong or mayority govt 


  >170
• Weak or minority govt 


  <170
• elections are every 5 years
• The leader of the party becomes…

  PM (prime ministe)
• Provincial voting areas are called 


  Ridings
• Total ONTARIO Ridings


  124
• Leader of the party becomes 


  Premier
• strong or mayority provincial govt 


  >63
• weak or minority provincial government 


  <63
• To find what’s the mayority or minority is by


  Divide by half and then add one
• Where do the provincial government go

  Queens park downtown ( legislative assembly of Ontario)
• 124 MPPs for provincial govt
• MPPs


  Member of Provincial Parliament.
• Municipal elections have

  25 riding or wards
• There are

  25 politicians and 1 mayor
• City politicians are

  Counsellors
• Municipal govt go to

  City hall (Toronto sign) called bylaws
• where does most money come from in a municipal

  Property taxes
• Municipal elections have no strong or weak govt
• For municipal election there are no parties involved
• The main role of the provincial government is to make laws that apply to all people living within its borders.