Thoughts From a "Lost Canadian" About Canadian Politics

Growing up in the USA, I am fairly familiar with politics in the USA. We basically have a two-party system - Democrats and Republicans. There are a few other parties - Independents, Libertarians, and Green Party, but since the 1850's the USA has basically been a two-party system. Democrats generally supports a stronger federal government, social programs, civil rights, and environmental regulation while Republicans typically advocate for free-market capitalism, limited government intervention in the economy, a strong national defense, and conservative social values. Of course trump has completely remade the Republicans in his image - which is not a positive thing at all.

At any rate, this "Lost Canadian" wanted to learn about the political system in Canada, so today I'm sharing with you what I learned on-line . . .

• Canada has a multi-party system dominated at the federal level by the Liberal Party (centre-left) and the Conservative Party (centre-right).
• Other significant parties in the House of Commons include the Bloc Québécois (Quebec-focused), the New Democratic Party (NDP) (left-wing), and the Green Party, with smaller parties like the People’s Party of Canada.

You will find my full post at this link.