Canadian System of Governance

Running head: CANADIAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE
Canadian System of Governance
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CANADIAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE 2
Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy within constitutional monarchy and with a
political system that was founded on the UK’s system. It is composed of the Queen of Canada,
who officially represented by the Governor General in the Senate House of Commons. As stated,
members of parliament are elected through ballot while heredity determines the monarch or head
of state. Any party that garners the majority members automatically becomes the prime minister
(Bernier, Brownsey & Howlett, 2016). At the executive level, the prime minister serves as the
head thus head of the government of the day.
In many nations all over the world, head of states is always elected through ballots by
citizens who are eligible to vote. In this case, they are being given the right to determine who
shall be the head of their respective states. However, in Canada, it is not practical; the head of
state inherits the power from within the family lineage. As stated in the above paragraph, Canada
practices parliamentary democracy politics and decides on who becomes the head of the
executive arm of government. Denying the citizen the right to chose or elect who becomes the
head of state is a form of elective dictatorship since their will cannot be felt nor expressed
through the electoral process. Everything may work well in terms of how things are managed in
the states; however, there are some who feel that something needs to be done to the constitution
to make things different and allow citizens elect both the head of state as well as the prime
minister, but not through parliamentarians. Failure of citizens to directly participate in electing
the top leaders such as the head of state and leader of government is an indication of elective
dictatorship, and the system should be reformed either through a constitutional amendment.
Power is exercised in Canada through parliament where parliamentarians make laws that
govern the country. However, they do not make rules in subjects that are assigned to the
legislatures of the provinces (Peach & Romanow, 2014). Legislatures at the provincial level have