Social 10
You wrote a pop quiz in class today. Additionally, I asked you to start making a chart to track progress of the election campaign. The chart that you make should look as described in the following section:
- The top row should have the main political parties in Canada, from left to right: Conservatives, Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc Quebecois, and Green (so your chart with have 6 columns, one for each political party, and another for the descriptions of what is contained in the following three rows).
- The next row of your chart should list the leader each of these political parties.
- The next row should list the number of seats that each political party won in the 2004 election, and where those seats are located, so for example, the Bloc Quebecois won 53 seats in the last sitting of Parliament, and they were all in Quebec.
- The last row (which should be most of your chart) is reserved for each party's political platform and policies. As the election campaign progresses almost every day the various political parties will be announcing new party ideas, initiatives, and campaign promises. (For example, the Conservative party promise to lower the GST from 7% to 5% over the next two years) To aid you in this endeavor, please keep watching the TV news, reading the newspaper, and you may also be able to use the permanent hyperlinks located on the right-hand side of this blog under the "Social 10 Links" heading. Unfortunately, the Bloc Quebecois don't seem to have an English version, so many of you will be more dependent on the news media for your information on this political party.
Have a great weekend!
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After one and a half cans of Red Bull and 3 episodes of Carpal Tunnel, I have translated a press release off the Bloc Quebecois website. The following include key points:
"Because the Québécois ones and the Inhabitants of Quebec are different, interdependent and open on the world, because it is them which decide and which they want harmonious and durable a development, the Bloc Quebecois proposes in its platform of the answers to the principal challenges with which Quebec is confronted", declared the copresidents Yvan Loubier and Pierre Paquette.....Regarding Quebec's durable development, the deputy* of Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot specifies that the Bloc Quebecois will institute a rise of the federal transfers for post secondary education claims and initializing the equitable Kyoto Protcol for Quebec as well as a surtax on the oil profits in Canada. "We will also continue to put forward measures to answer the effects of universalization, to require a programme of support for the old workers and to support the rise of the social economy", Yvan Loubier jouté. With regard to the Québécois population, the deputy of Joliette affirms that all the Inhabitants of Quebec without exception must be able to profit from accessible care of health, of a decent housing and insurance-employment when they lose their work..... to stimulate the economic development on all the territory, to set up a real transport policy and to counter the exodus of young people is important. "The durable development of the St. Lawrence, the support for the industry of the wood of as well as the need for stimulating the 2e and the 3e transformation in the resource divisions become priorities for the Bloc Quebecois. The areas of Quebec must be heard in Ottawa and they must receive more structuring investments of federal and to be able to also benefit they from universalization", underlined Yvan Loubier. The deputy of Joliette finally pointed out that the attack of the objective of 0,7 % of the GNP for the international assistance as well as the fight of the Bloc against the worst practices of universalization than are the tax havens and the flags of convenience, remained priorities. "From here so that sovereignty makes it possible Quebec to take its true place in the world, the Bloc Quebecois is committed allowing Québécois and with the Inhabitants of Quebec to benefit from a quality of enviable life for all, everywhere on the territory", Pierre Paquette concluded. While finishing, it should be stressed that this electoral platform was carried out within a rigorous financial framework, which envisages balanced budgets and concerning possibility of $3 Billion per year.
*A deputy means the MP responsible for said riding.
"No, I don't take French."
For the Liberals in Alberta, the Liberals took 2 seats in the 2k4 election but D-Kilgour left the Liberal Caucus. Do we write 1 or 2 seats on the chart?
Thanks for the translation. I played around with Google translation of their website for a bit after school, so I'm glad for the initiative shown. With regard to the Kilgour question: although the seat was won as a Liberal, he "crossed the floor", so Anne McClellan gets counted in Alberta, and Kilgour doesn't. Technically, he's listed as an Independent. If anyone else is struggling with locating the numbers of MPs that each party had, here's what you do: go to the hyperlink to the right entitled "Canadian Parliament". Click on "English", then click on "Memebers of Parliament" under "Current Parliamentarians", and you should be able to find an alphabetical listing of the MPs. I think that they used to have them listed also by province, but I couldn't seem to find that this evening. Maybe with the dissolution of Parliament, certain pages are being revamped, or possibly I'm looking right at it. Anyway, please have a good weekend, I probably won't be checking the blog too much this weekend. So relax, and bundle up if you go out!
how come they only list 306? aren't there 308?
can we have a mock election in class??
Response to 8:58
Currently there are 4 seats listed as independent, and 2 vacant because the MP's died in office.
The following link on Wikipedia contains a province-by-province count of MP's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election%2C_2004#Results_by_province
However, these are stats from the 2004 election, but that's too bad for you. Use your brain and find out who are left their respective parties' caucus. (Example: David Kilgour left the Liberals, so the total for Alberta Liberals should be 1 (one). )
when is this whole chart due???
in response to the Wikipedia link...
Aren't we supposed to use 2004 data anyway?
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With regard to the Kilgour question: although the seat was won as a Liberal, he "crossed the floor", so Anne McClellan gets counted in Alberta, and Kilgour doesn't.
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Here, the Liberals got 2 seats in the 2k4 election, but D-Kilgour left the Liberal caucus and sat as an independent (he was originally Conservative, but it's kinda hard to go back when you're a backstabber.). Thus, you have to check who left their respective caucus.
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