Can y'all answer a question for me?

[DarkWingedAngel]

Why is democracy so important to canadians?


it's for school so yea it would be nice if y'all would answer.

[kbug1993]

Not sure. I would look it up online.
May have something to do with religion.
Or culture?

[DarkWingedAngel]

Not sure. I would look it up online.
May have something to do with religion.
Or culture?
i did look it up and i found nothing.

[kbug1993]

Oh?
well.
most likely, I would think,
it was a religon issue or something to do with culture.

[ShatteredWings]

that sort of question is usually looking for why it's important to you, as a canandian

[DarkWingedAngel]

nope
the teacher said to look up the answer
and for it not to be my opinion

[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagg]

It could be because of equality, everyone having thier right to vote. But to be honest, what Canadians vote is only a small part of what chooses who the prime minister will be and our goverment is barely a democracy. anyways, dunno if it helped but it's my opinion

[mrmcdonaldduck]

i think democracy is important to canadians because it signifies independence from the brits. i had something like that except with australia, got 19/20 for the essay.

[Sage]

Democracy is important to Canadians for the same reason it's important to anybody else in the world. People want to know they have a say in the way their country functions. If you want to elaborate on Canada specifically, you can refer back to the colonial days of Upper/Lower Canada and the other four main colonies, which were largely run by the wealthy upper class (oligarchies) who used their power to neglect the lower and working classes.

Read up on your social studies, missy.

[INFERNO]

It's important to Canadians for the very same reason it's important to people in some other countries, people can have a say in how the country they're living in is being run. Sure one person's vote out of however many million may not be overwhelming but at least the Canadians have the ability or if you want to call it a priviledge to vote and to speak their mind without the risk of persecution.

You can take a more sociological perspective by saying that Canada and the rest of North America was at one point dominated by Parsons' structural-functionalism, which is a macro-sociological theory focusing on how societies are constructed together and stick together out of consensus. There's a huge focus on social structures, culture, socialization and roles, and in Canada, the average person regardless of their social role, can have a say as to what the government should do. In other words, it's both a bottom-up and top-down form of ruling; the citizens can voice their opinions and the governments comply, and the governments establish the rules and the citizens comply with some threat of negative consequence.

[DarkWingedAngel]

Democracy is important to Canadians for the same reason it's important to anybody else in the world. People want to know they have a say in the way their country functions. If you want to elaborate on Canada specifically, you can refer back to the colonial days of Upper/Lower Canada and the other four main colonies, which were largely run by the wealthy upper class (oligarchies) who used their power to neglect the lower and working classes.

Read up on your social studies, missy.
it wasn't for social studies
it was for civics

[Sage]

it wasn't for social studies
it was for civics

That's irrelevent. Studying socials would give you a better grasp of history and why things in the past haven't worked out.