On Tuesday Ali taught the class and gave a small presentation on political parties then we split into our seminar groups and each were assigned a political party of Canada to be. We looked up policies on environment and health and prepared questions and information to ask the other groups.
My group was assigned the Liberal Party of Canada. The Liberal Party is considered to be the natural reigning party of Canada, having produced great Prime Ministers such as Lyon MacKenzie-King and Lester B. Person. What we discovered about their health and environment policies is that they were actually really interesting, especially their health care idea.
On their health care policy ideas, they had one that was an idea on having a plan so that people with a gravely ill family member can take 6 months paid work to take care of them if the need is there. I thought that was a really interesting idea, and could think of people I know that could have helped in the past.
For their environmental policy ideas, they claimed to want to re-establish Canada as an environmental leader in the world. They wanted to put a cap and trade carbon policy in place, and quadruple Canada's renewable energy sources. They also wanted to preserve 50% of all boreal forests in Canada.
During the mock event, there was a lot of laughter and it was just really funny. It was interesting to see what people thought of things or how they tried to play the roles, such as the Bloc Quebecois. I really really enjoyed the activity.
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