On October 19, Canadian adults will vote in a federal election. Their votes will help to decide who becomes the next Prime Minister.
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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau Boycotts Sun News
Justin Trudeau is the leader of Canada’s Liberal party. One day, he hopes to become the Prime Minister of Canada—like his father, Pierre Trudeau was.
How Would You Change The Senate?
What would you do with the Canadian Senate? Change the way Senators are chosen? Get rid of it? Keep it as-is?
The Senate is a legislative body of the government that has almost the same powers as the House of Commons.
However, members to the House of Commons are elected; the prime minister appoints Senators.
And these tend to be people from his own party, who have done good things for his party.
Once they are in the Senate, they almost always vote as their party does in the House of Commons.
The Senate was started this way in 1867 when Canada was formed.
It was supposed to be a place for “sober second thought”—thinking carefully about the laws sent to it by the House of Commons and sometimes improving them.
Justin Trudeau New Leader Of Federal Liberals
Justin Trudeau is the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Justin Trudeau is the son of Pierre Trudeau, who was the charismatic Prime Minister of Canada for more than 15 years in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
A new kind of Trudeaumania swept the Liberal Party on Sunday, where Justin Trudeau won the leadership of the party by a landslide.
He took more than 80 per cent of the vote, winning handily on the first ballot.
Trudeau has a big challenge—to get the Liberal party focused again, and eventually to get it back in power.
He wants to be Canada’s next prime minister.
