government systems

Our current prime minister of Canada is Stephen Harper. He was born on April 30 1959 in Toronto Ontario. His wife’s name is Laureen and he has a daughter named Rachel and a son named Benjamin. The Harper’s maintain a permanent residence in Calgary. Stephen Harper has received bachelors and master’s degrees in economics at the university of Calgary.
The Main Political parities in Canada are New Democratic, Liberal, Conservative, Green, and Bloc Quebecois. Each party has a different set of ideas on how to run the country. Normally people vote for the party that has the same ideas and values as them. The reason why we need different parties is so that one party can’t take over. Communist only allow one party so that when elections come only they can win and they have full control. As Canadians we have a freedom of choice but what would we do if there was nothing to choose between?
An Election can be called by the Prime Minister at any time he wishes but one has to be called within five years. For and election the Prime Minister will ask the Governor General to dissolve Parliament. Currently our Governor General is Michaelle Jean.
Some differences between the Canadian and American government are that the Americans have only two political parities but Canada has unlimited groups. For President Americans vote for a specific person while Canadians vote for the members of a party and whatever party that gets the most of their members to win has there party leader become Prime Minister. We have different titles for our leaders Canada calls the leader Prime Minister and America calls them Presidents. Our province leader is the Premier while the State leader is a Governor. But no matter what we are both Democratic which means that the people have the final say because the government need our votes to get anywhere.