Questions tagged [canada]
Questions related to the government or politics of Canada.
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Why is China's relationship with Canada still strained when China has improved its ties with both Australia and the United States in recent times?
On Sunday, Global Times, published by the Chinese Communist Party’s
central committee, heralded the visit as an opportunity “to ease the
strained China-Canada relations.” However, it quoted a source ...
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What's the point of bringing a torture case in Syria at the ICJ? Can't Syria unilaterally block that?
BBC reported on June 12, 2023:
The Netherlands and Canada have submitted a case against Syria to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over allegations of torture.
I thought that [binding] cases ...
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Does the North American island of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon still hold a strategic advantage for France?
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon has had strategic significance at various eras in its history, mostly as fishing grounds and a geographical bargaining chip between France and England[1]. It also played a ...
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What positions exactly did the recently expelled Canadian staff expelled from India hold?
There have been a lot of rather vague claims about this, e.g. that India revoked "diplomatic immunity" of 41 Canadians, starting from a certain date, resulting in Canada withdrawing said ...
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Which Vienna Convention agreement was India expected to break?
[Credits for the articles (a law.se post): What is the legal way to expel diplomats from a country under the Vienna convention? ]
A diplomatic spat is ongoing between India and Canada.
India sought ...
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What was the biggest punishment given by Canada against a U.S. spy?
OTTAWA—New figures show Canada has turfed out five spies in the past
decade from a surprising source country — its best friend and ally,
the United States.
From 2004 to 2014 Ottawa sent back to the U....
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Why do the Canadian Liberals not designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization?
The Conservative Party of Canada (official opposition) has continuously called the Liberals (ruling party) to designate the IRGC (Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps) as a terrorist organization.
The ...
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Do Inuit leaders have enough sovereignty to allow China to build infrastructure for them in Canada?
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has warned Inuit
leaders that foreign adversaries could gain a foothold in Canada by
offering to fill infrastructure gaps in the North.
But Natan Obed,...
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Political purpose of Canada's prime minister publicly accusing India's government of being involved with killing a Canadian Sikh leader
On September 18, 2023, Trudeau accuses India's government of involvement in killing of Canadian Sikh leader states
"Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of ...
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Why does no one stand up to protest the strike of Canadian federal officers who are earning about 45% more than average Canadian workers? [closed]
Considering the economic down-trend, most highly educated individuals struggle to find a job. The Canadian federal officiers have the above-average pay, above-average benefits, above average stability,...
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Why do the Nordics have a low birth rate despite their government providing all parents with free childcare and parental leave?
Supporters of free childcare, parental leave and other parental perks often claim that the lack of such benefits is the root cause of low fertility rates in the US and other developed nations. And yet,...
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Why does Ontario have a quota on milk production?
According to a recent news article:
Canadian dairy farmer is speaking out after being forced to dump
thousands of liters of milk after exceeding the government’s
production quota.
In a video shared ...
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Why isn't Canada taking in more Americans?
Polling indicates record numbers of Americans want to leave the United States, with the most recent poll I could find placing it at 16%.
However, data shows that few Americans are actually leaving. ...
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During the Canadian Convoy Protests, what was the stated reason for freezing bank accounts?
It is common knowledge now that the Canadian Government froze a handful of bank accounts based on suspicion of funding the 2022 Convoy Protests.
When I watched Justin Trudeau's portion of the ...
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What government tools available to Canada to deal with population growth?
Any country that is experiencing population growth has to plan for building new cities but Canada has no plans nor capital investments to build new cities.
Egypt employed its military to build a new ...
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Why do Canadians complain more about cost of living than Saudis? [closed]
I do not get it.
Alberta’s recoverable reserves of oil are, still conservatively, the largest on Earth by far, and are larger than those of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela combined.
Canada is rich in water ...
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Why can Canada’s parliament vote (on gun laws), but even when a single party controls both the U.S. House and Senate a change is all but impossible?
An article today discusses the difference between the U.S. and Canadian political systems and claims to answer a simple question, but the main issue remains unanswered.
Why can Canada’s parliament ...
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Why doesn't Canada try to make its population grow up to the size of the USA? [closed]
This is my personal assessment: The USA has a moderately large population, and it is the world's largest economy because of that. As a result, the USA is a superpower.
No other countries in the West ...
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In Canada, why can't the Emergencies Act be used against a political opponent?
(Unsure if this belongs on Law or Politics SE, it might be better suited for Law)
Apropos of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy in Canada earlier ...
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How do you explain Canada's Trudeau's power-sharing agreement to a five-year-old (American)?
The "explain to a five-year-old" question is a semi-standard format where the answer demonstrates their ability to understand both the subject matter, and the perspective and limitations of ...
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Why can't the law discriminate based on your religion, but it's ok for money?
I live in Canada (province of Québec), where we have the Charter of Rights and Freedom that says:
Equality Rights
Equality before and under law and equal protection and benefit of law
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Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to end the trucker protests in Canada. Did he previously speak in support of similar protests in India?
The BBC's Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts
What began as a rally against a new rule that all truckers must be vaccinated to cross the US-Canada border, or quarantine upon ...
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Was Trudeau's invocation of the Emergency Act legal? [closed]
On Monday, February 14, 2022, Justin Trudeau invoked the never-before-used Emergencies Act in response to the ongoing Freedom Convoy Protests across the country, including the series of border ...
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Why was the Emergencies Act invoked in Canada with regard to the "Freedom Convoy"?
The Emergencies Act was invoked in response to the "freedom convoy" in Canada. I don't understand what makes this convoy so important to put the country in this situation. Why it is invoked?
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Why would Canadian Green party members be highly supportive of the Freedom Convoy's demands to drop covid restrictions?
The Freedom Convoy are truckers and supporters who are protesting (and blockading) in Ottawa against covid measures. Ostensibly it started out with cross-border truckers getting a vaccine mandate, ...
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Canadian conservatives on climate change: other examples of a mainstream political party deliberately moving itself out of the Overton Window?
(The Overton window can be thought of as "what's politically sellable to the public")
Canadian Conservative leader O'Toole has been jettisoned by his peers, 73 out 119.
Canada's ...
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Why is Regeneron's Monoclonal Antibody COVID-19 treatment not being used in Canada? [closed]
In the United States, treating COVID using Regeneron's Monoclonal Antibody cocktail has been growing increasingly popular for its usefulness of treating patients at risk of hospitalization. It has FDA ...
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How did Meng Wanzhou become free to go back to China?
Recently, some Chinese people and media are celebrating the success of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Huawei. On 1 December 2018, while transferring planes at Vancouver International Airport en route to ...
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Why must Canadian cannabis be packaged in child-proof containers, but not Alcohol/Tobacco?
The Cannabis Act and the Cannabis Regulations lay out a set of guidelines that regulate the packaging requirements for Cannabis distribution in the country. Among the more basic and expected ...
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Why wasn't Point Roberts given an exception to the Canada-US border closure?
Point Roberts is a small community in Washington off the tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula south of Vancouver, with a population of around a thousand. The only roads connecting Point Roberts to the rest ...
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Why doesn't Canada recognize the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine? [closed]
According to cbc.ca:
The government of Canada's website lists which vaccines are recognized
for the purposes of travel — Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna,
AstraZeneca-Oxford, and Johnson and Johnson — and ...
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What exactly is the nature of Michael Spavor's espionage charges?
Chinese court jails Canadian for 11 years on spying charges
A court in China has found Canadian businessman Michael Spavor guilty of spying, sentencing him to 11 years in prison, in a decision likely ...
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Why does Canada only accept refugee applications from Afghans applying from Afghanistan, thus requiring them to return to the country?
The Canadian government have started processing the refugee applications for Afghanistan whose lives are being endangered by the increasing advances of the Taliban. According to immigration.ca:
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Why do countries keep the British Monarch as their head of state?
I think it is somewhat understandable for small territories that are either still dependent on the United Kingdom or are independent but relying economically on the UK, but what about Canada, Belize, ...
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Is there any government that managed to help local (national) content creators by regulating the big streaming giants?
I have recently heard about the Canadian Bill C-10 and read more about it. There seems to be a lot of criticism about it and few arguments in favor of it:
Pros
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What do the media and First Nations hope to accomplish by bringing attention to the history of residential schools in Canada?
There was recently a discovery of children who had died at a residential school, which led to protests and much media attention. This isn't a totally new discovery, though, and organizations have ...
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What caused Canada to change their stance on the "lab leak" theory of COVID?
On May 27th 2021, Prime Minister Trudeau said:
“We support the call by the United states and others to better understand the origins of COVID-19,” Trudeau told reporters.
“I know there are a lot of ...
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What political factors led to the slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in Canada?
Among the G7, Canada ranks second to last in terms of COVID-19 Vaccine rollout, only ahead of Japan (where Vaccine rollout only began in March). Additionally, Canada was the only G7 member to tap into ...
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Appeal process for being designated a "Terrorist Group" (Canada)
Yesterday, the office of Canada's Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness designated 13 groups as "Terrorist Groups". According to CBC, the result is that it is not necessarily ...
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How did Canadian politicians bypass the Canada U.S. border closure in December 2020, to vacation in the U.S?
I'm referring to https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/a-violation-of-trust-alberta-doctors-decry-government-vacations-abroad. I know there are exceptions to the Canada U.S. border closure, like ...
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Is the Vimy Ridge Memorial Canadian territory?
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War.
Suppose I want to open a gift ...
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Why wasn't Justin Trudeau, Canada Prime Minister, tested for COVID19 when his wife caught it? [closed]
Why wasn't Justin Trudeau tested, when his wife tested positive in Mar 2020? I'm not referring to his negative test in Oct 2020.
On Mar 28 2020, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau says she has recovered from ...
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Would it be economically beneficial for Canada to relaunch its once-abolished Immigrant Investor Programme as a Pandemic recovery solution?
As the title says, would it be helpful for a low population country like Canada to get financial aid in the form of Investment in return for PR?
Canada used to have such a programme but it was ...
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To what extent will Canada's prime minister and its governor general coordinate the upcoming Throne Speech with the queen?
After seeing Al Jazeera's Canada’s COVID-19 recovery plan to dominate Trudeau throne speech
Justin Trudeau is set to unveil ‘broad’ plan that includes healthcare and job support when Parliament ...
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Is there a political meaning behind writing Canada with a K (in English)?
The BBC has quoted this tweet written by someone supporting statue takedown/vandalism (depending on your viewpoint) in Canada
One thing a little odd about the tweet is that Canada is spelled Kanada (...
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Why are American elections and politics receiving so much coverage in Canadian and European media?
I live in Canada, but I follow American politics to some degree, as do most of the people I know. However, I do it as a hobby and realize that American politics really don't have much of an effect on ...
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Is Canada required to allow transit to and from Alaska?
Currently, the US/Canada border is closed to "non-essential" travel. US citizens travelling to and from Alaska are allowed, with some restrictions, to make this journey by car.
Is the right ...
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Do the Canadian Senate's regions support each other in voting as the Constitution expects them to?
I was reading the Wikipedia article on the Senate of Canada. Based on that, Canada is divided into four principal regions that all have 24 senators; in addition is Newfoundland & Labrador and the ...
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What's the meaning of a golden border around an open letter in Canada?
Yesterday, a group of parliamentarians and former Canadian diplomats wrote a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging the release of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.
The letter features the ...
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Why is a UN Security Council seat important to Canada?
Canada loses its bid for a seat on UN Security Council. Some politicians are very disappointed with that fact.
I am of the opinion that instead of Canada, we have Norway or Ireland. I believe they ...
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