Stephen Harper Essay Rough Draft Stephen Harper positively change Canada many ways. Harper cut GST from 7% to 5% over the course of his terms. Harbour conducted many free-trade agreements especially with the European Union Union. Launching consultations for the Canada job grant which would help ensure that Canadians are able to to obtain skills and qualities that are needed to get jobs in high demand fields. What Harpers cut taxes for many Canadians.
I believe that Canada was worried after 9/11. They could have been attacked because they were allies of us. They might have worried that their airplanes were hijacked also. 500 airplanes from around the world were en route to the United States. Planes with enough fuel were told to return to their airport of origin, and the rest was diverted to airports across Canada.
Prime minister R.B Bennett was not very helpful to Canadians during the Great Depression because he made strategic decisions for his political advantage. Firstly, When the Great Depression was at its worst in 1934, Bennett blamed the causes of the depression (The Roaring Twenties) which came from high investments, bank loans, and expensive manufacturing produce mainly based in Ontario and Quebec. Bennett fully accused Ontario and Quebec saying that they were “wasteful and extravagant”, so Ontario and Quebec were wealthy enough to handle their own crisis. Coming close to his election, Bennett suddenly changed his priorities of the population to bring unemployment benefits, minimum wage, and income taxation to Canadians by spending 20 million on the Unemployment Relief Act. which was inspired by Roosevelt's New Deal to combat the Great Depression in the
The article also talks about why people were unhappy with Harper. First was feelings against Islam or some people would consider Islamophobia. He wanted to make a ban on the Niqab which is the veil worn by some muslim women. One major issue to Canadians is the rise in muslim immigration (which might be our fault) and the paranoia of terrorism.
The United States and Canada During the Great Depression The Great Depression was a terrible financial crisis in the 1930s that affected virtually every country in the world. Two of the countries that were really hit hard during the depression were the United States and Canada.
In the short documentary film “Canada’s shame: Residential schools, unmarked graves, and the search for justice- people and power” I learned a lot about what Canada did to the indigenous people regarding residential schools and the trauma we left on their community. The lives of the indigenous communities are forever altered because of the way these schools were designed to assimilate and strip the children of their identity. Carl Sam was just one of the Saint Mary’s residential school survivors and he says, “His experience at the residential school has stripped him of his whole life”. He goes on to say one day he was put on a boat and all the children were crying around him because they were taken out of their homes and they didn’t know what was going on,
Along with the Confederation to begin the formation of Canada, the reciprocity debate of 1911 and NAFTA further impacted the development of Canada, because of its economic significance. The reciprocity debate of 1911 and NAFTA pronounced Canada economically through the flourishing of trade with other countries. The reciprocity agreement between Canada and the United States was instated to protect tariffs on goods traded between the two countries. Consequentially, the economy for Canada increased, with exports to the United States growing by 33%, post treaty.
Today, Canada is seen as a multicultural and peaceful nation that has evolved over the course of history. This great nation would never have been possible without the impact that former Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson left on this country. His achievements and insights profoundly affected and shaped Canada’s nation. First, peacekeeping is an important part of Canada’s heritage and a reflection of its fundamental beliefs that Pearson implemented after dealing with world changing situations and winning a Nobel Prize. Also, his contributions as a liberal leader as well as the flaws and controversy with Diefenbaker did in fact define this country.
Bill C-10 was introduced by the Minister of Justice on the 20th of September 2011. Bill C-10 is also called the Safe Streets and Communities Act but many believe the title is very misleading. The purpose of this Act is to provide Justice for Victims of Terrorism, Amend the State Immunity Act, the Criminal Code, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Other Acts. This essay will analyze issues that affect the criminal code and provide the strengths and weaknesses of the Bill, and will also provide justification on why or why not the Bill is favouring for Canada to deal with crime and the judicial process.
“ Their policies [ the Conservative party’s] appeared confused and impractical. “ (Fellows and Wells, 2013). This is perhaps most appearant in Diefenbaker’s ambitions to make Canada less dependent on the U.S. economically. Diefenbaker announced an ambitious plan that would allow Canada to move 15% of it’s trade from the U.S. to Britain. Ideally the plan addresses the growing discomfort that Canadian citizens had with the U.S.’s increasing role in their country.
When Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier stated, “As the 19th century was that of the United States, so I think the 20th century shall be filled by Canada”, the decades that followed provided his statement to be true as Canada became an independent and strong nation. The battlefields in World War One were a defining moment for Canada as their forces fought as one nation for the first time, instead of under British Command. Also, at the end of the war, Canada was recognized at the Peace Conference and signed the Treaty of Versailles as an independent country. In addition, Canada joined the League of Nations, playing a major role in world politics. These events in the early 20th century allowed the beginning of a strong nation with a growing national
70% of Canadians claim to have done a favor for their neighbor. Over 50% of Canadians believe that most of their fellow citizens can be trusted (Turcotte). And it’s no surprise because Canada has a certain reputation: it is harmless, void of all the unkindness that has claimed the United States since its creation.
When Justin Trudeau was elected to the position of Prime Minister of Canada during the 2015 election, his means of promoting himself, specifically what he planned to do to better Canada, was taken to a whole new level, to coincide with the current forms of social media that millennials use, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Trudeau has grasped the attention of individuals of all ages, and not just through what his political aims and goals are, but because of his use of various social media platforms and the ways in which he has used them as a way to communicate with Canadians; and in a way, this makes Canadians feel a connection to Trudeau and his family. According to an article in The Financial Post, “social media metrics matter a
Donald Trump a wealthy businessman and now president of the united states has had a very substantial impact on Canada. As a powerful and very influential country in the world the decisions of President Donald Trump affects the world in one way or another. So what are some of the actions that might have an impact on Canadian society? One impact that Donald Trump has had on Canadian society is his approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The federal government has done so, very much to help our beautiful country of Canada. They have given us rights and freedoms, safety and security and most of all a great country to live in. But I am not here to tell you how supposedly great the government is; I am here to inform you on how the government’s actions have affected us as Canadian citizens. Canada’s government was founded in 1867 under the Constitution Act. From then until now, has the government improved our land, or slowly destroyed it?
