Groups of persons who share an identity that’s based on, but not limited to, share ethnic, religious, cultural or linguistic qualitiesWhat is a nation?

Who is at the very top of the Bureaucracy, who reports to an elected Minister?

Who is the Deputy Minister?

A government runs up a ________ when they spend more than they bring in.

What is the deficit?

Which Prime Minister was responsible for embedding the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Who is Pierre Elliott Trudeau?

What is Section 15 of the Canadian Charter?

What is the Equality Clause?

Who is the monarch’s representative in Canada?

Who is the Governor General?

The central partisan agency in the federal government.

What is the PMO?

A belief system which explains and justifies, or challenges, a political order, with an action plan.

What is an ideology?

Canada’s newest political entity.

What is Nunavut?

Theorist who believed that human nature was essentially good?

Who is Rousseau?

Too focussed on the near future.

What is cognitive nearsightedness?

Surrounding oneself with like-minded people--a common practice by decision-makers.

What is the doppleganger effect?

Principles, standards, what an individual or community esteems as meaningful; help to shape people’s perception and images of reality.

What are values?

Legal system where decisions are made on the basic of precedent, case law, or previous decisions.

What is common law?

POGG

What is Peace, Order and Good Government?

The Three “Es” in “Triple-E Senate”.

Equal, Elected and Effective

Cabinet Ministers are appointed by whom?

Prime Minister

Another word for the unfettered free market.

Laissez-faire

The ruling and governing principles of a society are expressed in this document.

What is the constitution?

Which clause of the Charter exists in Canada and nowhere else in the world?

Section 33

We tend not to think of responsibilities when we refer to this document.

“What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?”

What was the primary objective of the first wave of feminism in Canada?

Suffrage

“Freedom To” .

What are positive rights?

The media play this role in highlighting particular policy objectives.

Agenda Setting

The sections of the Constitution that identify Federal and Provincial jurisdictions.

Section 91 and 92

The year the Canadian was Constitution patriated

1982

This organization regulates the CBC.

What is the CRTC?

Out of the nine judges who sit on the Supreme Court, how many must be from Quebec?

Three

This concept requires that the government resign when it is defeated in Parliament over a major issue.

What is responsible government?

This is the first stage of the policy process.

What is problem identification?

What is Section 33?

Notwithstanding clause, opting out clause, Over-ride clause

What are the underlying principles of the judiciary?

Objectivity, neutrality and impartiality

“Freedom From” .

Negative liberty

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Hon. Beverley McLachlin

The third stage of the public policy process.

Evaluating alternatives

The “rule of the precedent.”

What is stare decisis.

The most senior federal civil service is called the ____ of the Privy Council Office (PCO).

Who is the Clerk?

The word for some individual or group who has an interest in the outcome of a public policy.

A policy stakeholder

FOIPOP

Freedom of Information & Protection of Privacy

The year that Aboriginal peoples became citizens in Canada

1956

Those who are among Canada’s poorest.

Who are women and children?

New kinds of security.

Environmental security.Human security.Food security.

The Canadian who coined the phrase “the global village”.

Who is Marshall McLuhan?

The feeling of psychological satisfaction derived from the belief that the political system will take heed of voter preference and must respond to these preferences.What is political efficacy?

The process by which minorities are consistently excluded from the corridors of power and influence.

What is systemic discrimination?

The role of the media in democracy.

Watch-dogAgenda setting

Rosa Park’s actions were after this woman’s actions.

Who is Viola Desmond?

The term for transferring wealth between individuals or regions to realize a degree of equality.

What is the redistribution of income?

The infrastructure upon which Canada is built that facilitated nation-building and east-west flows.

What are transportation and communication systems?

The term that is used to indicate that some people and regions rely too heavily on state hand-outs.

What is dependency?

Some commentators argue that national sovereignty is challenged by this technology.

What is the Internet?

The year of the ‘Oka’ crisis.

1990

The fundamental characteristic of Canada as a multi-group society within the traditions of democracy.

What is pluralism?

Law is older than this process of the deliberate making of law.

What is legislation?

A constitution is sometimes described as this plant form.

What is a living tree?

What a citizen possesses in addition to rights in a democratic society.

What are obligations?

The implications of the Charter on politics in Canada and on the role of the judiciary?

What is the legalization of politics and the politicization of the judiciary?

Certain fundamental principles so firmly entrenched in the political process of the state that no formal documentation entrenching them is considered necessary.What is an unwritten constitution?

The problem of looking at the world only through the eyes of your own ethnic identity.

What is ethnocentrism?

A political system with one level of political authority.

What is a unitary state?

Theorist who maintained that life would be nasty, brutish and short in the state of nature?

Who is Hobbes?

The five main fields of political science.

What is: political theory; international relations; comparative politics; public administration & public policy; Canadian politics & government.