Chapter 5 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- What is the policy making process?
- How might you shape our political process?
- What opportunities exist to engage in politics?
- How do you feel about politics today, versus when you first started this class?
- What are some strategies for effectively communicating with elected officials and other decision makers?
- How do grassroots movements play a role in shaping public policy?
- Why is it important to get involved in your community?
- Why is it important to understand how our democracy works, no matter what you do in life?
- As a consumer, how do you influence the market?
- Do you believe business can help advance good ideas in our society? Why or why not?
- Why is it important to understand economics and the role of business in society, no matter what you do in life?
- What did you learn about the political process? What surprised you?
- What is our political system's best quality?
- What is our political system's worst quality?
- Do you believe you can advance your ideas through the political process? Why or why not?
- Does the process matter?
- Do outcomes matter?
- What process will you use to answer your better question?
- What outcome is necessary to balance people and nature?
- What will you do to enhance our country and our world?
Reflection Activity
- Open Mic: Just one option this time! Take the floor and tell your peers what lessons you've learned in this story, and the class as a whole. Also! Tell your peers how you might use these lessons to answer your better question.
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Referenced Resources
- Grizzly Bears
- Order Paper and Notice Paper
- How new laws and regulations are created
- Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists
- Justice Laws Website
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Right to Life, Liberty and Security of the Person
- Mobility Rights
- Writing the policy
- Types of Bills - The Legislative Process
- Elections Canada
- Why door knocking works: the 'terrifying' art of political canvassing
- The art of political persuasion
- Apathy is Boring
- Contemporary Canadian Govt. & Politics: Getting Involved in Government and Politics
- Youth Council Toolkit
- Prime Minister's Youth Council
- Lethbridge MP seeking new members for Youth Advisory Board
- Youth advisory council application
- Youth Advisory Committee
- Forward. For Young Canadians.
- Toronto Youth Cabinet
- Youth Advisory Council (YAC)
- Councillor? Alderman? Alderbroad? Calgary to choose
- Current Members of Parliament
- Civic Leadership
- The political ‘policy’ convention: what it is, what it isn’t, and what we should be paying attention to
- Compare the party platforms on these top election issues
- Political participation in Canada
- The Social and Civic Sources of Voting and Participation
- Are Canadian Political Parties Empty Vessels?
- Canadians Speak Out on Barriers to Political Participation
- Political Parties and Leaders
- Political parties - all of them - are failing to connect with Canadians
- Why partisans are responsible for the mess Canada has made of the pandemic
- Canadian Political Parties
- A Light in the Window: Ending Apartheid in South Africa
- Young Liberals' slogan a hot-button issue
- 6 kids, 6 parties: Why these kids are election volunteersYouth-Led Social Change: Topics, Engagement Types, Organizational Types, Strategies, and Impacts
- Alberta Liberal: Environment
- Western Canada High School
- Michael Davis
- Developing a Briefing Paper
- Write to your MP! Ukraine needs Canada's help NOW!
- Meeting with your MP: Advocacy toolkit
- Contact your Member of Parliament (MP) — It’s the most direct way to be heard
- Call your MP.
- Why writing a letter to your MP matters
- Current Members of Parliament - House of Commons
- Petitions
- Change.org
- These were the most-signed e-petitions sent to the Trudeau government
- Why petitions are (almost always) a staggering waste of time
- Harvey Locke
- Nature Needs Half
- Yellowstone to Yukon
- Researchers: ‘Yellowstone to Yukon’ Work Boosts Conservation
- Y2Y vision contributes to 80 per cent increase in protected areas
- Linking protected areas from Yellowstone to the Yukon shows the value of conserving large landscapes, not just isolated parks and preserves
- Case Study: Ecological corridors in ecological networks
- If we want a whole Earth, Nature Needs Half
- Saving 'half of Earth' to save humanity
- The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature
- Scaling – from “reaching many” to sustainable systems change at scale: A critical shift in mindset
- Half the world must be set aside for nature, says Canadian conservationist
- Protecting Earth: If ‘Nature Needs Half,’ What Do People Need?
- Carbon Capture And Storage (CCS)
- Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet
- “Half Earth” conservation could affect over a billion people
- To Conserve Nature in the Anthropocene, Half Earth Is Not Nearly Enough
- Half-Earth: A biodiversity 'solution' that solves nothing
- Saving Half the Planet for Nature Isn't As Crazy As It Seems
- Ecological corridors
- COP15 ends with landmark biodiversity agreement
- Will protecting half the Earth save biodiversity? Depends which half
- Situating the Half-Earth proposal in distributive justice
- Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?
- Global climate protests demand world leaders phase out fossil fuels
- Thousands turn out for Vancouver climate march
- What you need to know about the Wet'suwet'en protests, arrests
- 'Freedom Convoy' protest voted news story of the year
- The Profound Value of Market Values
- The invisible hand: A concept that explains hidden economic forces in the market
- Voting with Your Wallet Is the Ultimate Consumer Power
- Corporations Can Change The World For The Better; Here’s How We Can Help
- How Big Business Is Driving Social Change
- Consumers Should Be Voting Every Day—with Their Wallets
- Recent Study Reveals More Than a Third of Global Consumers Are Willing to Pay More for Sustainability as Demand Grows for Environmentally-Friendly Alternatives
- How capitalism can be a force for greater good
- Mistrust of institutions correlates with gap in financial literacy – now is the time for change
- Is Big Business Really That Bad?
- Is Corporate Change Really Possible?
- Corporations Are People Too
- By popular demand: Companies that changed their ways
- The push and pull: Consumer demand driving ESG reforms in business
- Corporations are and should be people
- Corporations Can Change The World For The Better
- Canada's sleaziest corporate scandal
- Planet Earth's Future Now Rests in the Hands of Big Business
- Change Isn't Easy
- Hal Kvisle
- The rise of the eco-friendly consumer
- Sustainability in business: Staying ahead of the curve
- Business is using COP15 to show it's serious about saving nature; environmentalists aren't so sure
- Seeing green: Can corporations find allies among environmentalists?
- How to Talk to the Other Side: Environmentalists vs. Wall Street
- Why we should embrace big business
- Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability
- Why relying on new technology won't save the planet
- How digital technology and innovation can help protect the planet
- Technology As Our Planet's Last Best Hope
- City Council | Coquitlam, BC
- Billions for home building back-loaded, deficit projected at $40B in 2023-24: fall economic statement
- The process of developing a policy
- The most important committees you've never heard of
- Legislation at a glance
- Like a Rock : The Chuck Cadman Story
- MP independence talking point of debate
- Quebec MP Alain Rayes leaves Conservatives to sit as Independent after Poilievre win
- Wilson-Raybould, Philpott to run again as independent candidates
- Independent MPP makes history, wins in long-time PC riding of Haldimand-Norfolk
- Independent candidates must battle fierce headwinds
- Why it is so hard for independent candidates to get elected in Canada's House of Commons
- Independent MPs usually start off in parties and rarely win an election
- Why is it virtually impossible to be an independent in Canada’s Parliament?
- Jody Wilson-Raybould quits cabinet amid SNC-Lavalin controversy
- Jody Wilson-Raybould: The woman who fought Justin Trudeau
- Ex-Canada minister who clashed with PM Trudeau says he broke many promises
- 'I wish I had never met you,' Wilson-Raybould told Trudeau, she reveals in her new book
- Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott kicked out of Liberal Party caucus
- Canada might have too much party discipline, but that's at least better than too little
- The stifling conformity of party discipline
- Can we have democracy without political parties?
- The Deep Roots of Italy's Coalition Chaos
- Backbenchers are the first victims of the party line
- ‘By far the most powerful hidden element of party discipline is the social pressure on MPs to toe the party line’: Alex Marland on his book Whipped
- Mayor Phillip Owen: A Life of Vancouver Civic Service
- Tools for Nomination Contestants – Elections Canada
- 30 years since his first election: Port Coquitlam MLA recounts 'touching moment' in B.C. legislature
- Mike Farnworth
- Public Service Commission of Canada
- Current Members of Parliament
- Parliamentary Business
- MLA calls for government to play larger role in NWT shelters
- Quarry opponents finally get government's ear when MLA flexes 3rd-party muscle
- Types of Bills - The Legislative Process
- Donna Kennedy-Glans, former cabinet minister and oilpatch executive, joins race to lead Alberta PCs
- Old loyalists, rookies get the call to B.C. Premier Christy Clark's new cabinet
- First Nations leaders voice frustration over slow pace of change since B.C. passed UNDRIP-based rights act
- Canada and the Culture Wars
- Harris, Goodale, Bernier and Raitt headline list of notable election winners and losers
- LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada
- Cabinet
- Cabinet Confidence and Solidarity
- Cabinet secrecy is essential, but should not be absolute
- Confidences of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
- Legislative Process - Our Procedure
- Office of the Clerk
- Order Paper and Notice Paper
- Electoral Districts
- The state of Question Period is embarrassing. Good luck cleaning it up
- Boring and rowdy a terrible combination for House’s Question Period
- Threat and Decision Making
- Problem with Question Period is there's too much of it
- Want kids to behave? Don't take them to question periodWant kids to behave? Don't take them to question period
- The Speaker tried to make a speech about decorum
- Canadian Parliamentary System: Our Procedure
- Why we shouldn't 'fix' question period
- If Presidents Faced Question Time
- Canada is a great democracy. But you need to understand it.
- When MPs are on their phones in QP, they’re wasting your money
- Why are MPs browsing their phones during question period?
- It’s a charade, but question period is the only answer
- Two thirds of Canadians think question period is 'politically charged theatre': survey
- Tory MP’s bill to empower Commons over PMO finds cross-partisan support
- Amending Bills at Committee and Report Stages
- Canada's Premiers
- The Lieutenant Governors
- How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Parliamentary Democracy
- Parliamentary systems do better economically than presidential ones
- Commonwealth
- Senate of Canada
- How do you solve a problem like the Senate?
- What has the Senate ever done for us, really?
- Majority of Canadians support either abolished or reformed Senate: poll
- Two Senate changes are long overdue and within reach
- Prime Minister announces the appointment of a senator
- Senators appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister
- The Role of the Senate
- If Senators can't be elected, why do we have a Senate?
- Our unelected Senate doesn’t even have to actually defeat a bill to kill it
- The Case for an Elected Senate
- Senate Reform: The Good, the Bad and the Unconstitutional
- Why Canada needs the Senate
- The Senate reform bill: A constitutional danger for Canada
- An elected senate would be a recipe for gridlock
- House of Lords
- The House of Lords is an effective safeguard against absolutism and improper legislation. The government should not force through reforms that would reduce the independence of its members
- Canada's Senate: Sober second thought
- Many bills would die with election call
- Prorogation is an unnecessary abuse of Ontario Premier’s power
- Trudeau's cynical prorogation is like Harper's, with a smile
- Prorogation puts Parliament on hold
- What is a prorogation of Parliament?
- The notwithstanding clause has destabilized Canada’s constitutional order. Here’s how it can be restored
- Two law experts debate the merits of constraining the notwithstanding clause
- Canadian MPs across the spectrum see threats to democracy: ‘There’s no common middle ground’
- Canada can't be complacent about threats to our democracy
- Politicians say their jobs are loathsome. But they’re part of the reason why
- Corruption in Canada worst in a decade, finds international watchdog
- Corruption as human nature
- Most Canadians agree 'Canada is broken' — and they're angry about it: National poll
- From vaccines to pipelines to clean water on reserves, why Canada can't seem to get anything done
- Comforting ourselves to death
- What to Do When You Reach a Breaking Point
- Human cultural evolution found to be just as slow as biological evolution
- Canada ranks as 2nd-best country in 2023: U.S. News
- In viral times, 'big government' is awfully good
- Canadians view own country favourably but many unsure about Canada's system of government: survey
- Canada's Growing Problem with Trust in Government
- Democracy in decline worldwide, new report says
- Israel-Hamas War
- The Niger Coup's Outsized Global Impact
- 'A Crisis Coming': The Twin Threats to American Democracy
- Yemen's Tragedy: War, Stalemate, and Suffering
- DR Congo: An unprecedented crisis goes ignore
- Canadian MPs across the spectrum see threats to democracy: ‘There’s no common middle ground’
- Canada can't be complacent about threats to our democracy
- How Canada advances democracy in the world
- Promoting Democracy and Human Rights: Lessons of the 1990s
- Democracy - the United Nations
- Democracy Building: A Cultural Challenge
- Canadians should pay attention to the democratic crisis in America
- Canada is a great democracy. But you need to understand it.
- Democracy is under attack everywhere – including in Canada. But what do we mean by democracy?
- What is the Rule of Law - and why does it matter?
- Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching About the Politics of Power and Resistance
- War and Violence in the Ancient World
- Canada's democracy is growing stronger as world weakens
- Character assault. Contempt. This week showed us the ugly, sneering face of Canadian politics
- Want kids to behave? Don't take them to question period
- Data Dive with Nik Nanos: Canadians are losing faith in the country’s most vital institutions
- Canadians frustrated by state of democracy, study says
- Mapped: The World's Legal Government Systems
- Maggie MacDonald
- Opinion: 67% agree Canada is broken — and here's why
- Why Perfection Is The Enemy Of Done
- Democracies in Decline
- Poll shows many Canadians disconnected from democracy, vulnerable to populism
- The environment is Canada's biggest wedge issue
- Extinction crisis threatens humanity
- 'Massive failure': The world has missed all its biodiversity targets
- Many Across the Globe Are Dissatisfied With How Democracy Is Working
- Canada has devolved into a childish country incapable of solving big problems
- This Is How Democracy Dies
- Donna Kennedy Glans
- Comforting ourselves to death
- Canadians are struggling. We need less talk, more action
- The Power of Citizen Diplomacy
- Let's reflect on the gift of democracy before it's too late
- Be thankful for the gift of democracy
- How Hitler Transformed a Democracy Into a Tyranny
- TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada
- World politics explainer: the end of Apartheid
- What modern campaigners can learn from the fight for women’s suffrage
- Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction cascades'
- Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
- Cathedral Thinking