So now the Führer of Canada is George VI.
At present, Canada is striving to transfer the final adjudication rights for Canadian civil and criminal cases from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom to the Supre Court of Canada.
Although the British King is the Führer of Canada, he obviously cannot truly do anything here, so the representative of the United Kingdom in Canada is the Governor General of Canada.
However, as Canada’s steps towards independence accelerate, the Governor’s duties in Canada have actually beco less significant.
It is more of a symbolic role.
The main duties include convening and dissolving Parliant, appointing the elected Pri Minister and his governnt, signing bills passed by Parliant, receiving visiting heads of state, accepting credentials from foreign diplomats, conferring military ranks to generals, and awarding those who have made outstanding contributions to the nation.
The Governor is nominated by the Pri Minister and appointed by the British sovereign, with a typical term of five years, extendable by about one year.
In a sense, Canada’s political system is also a tri-system coexistence.
The legislative body is also the Canadian Parliant, which is divided into the Senate and the House of Commons, or alternatively, the House of Lords and the House of Commons, a practice adopted from the United Kingdom.
Canada’s Senate has 105 seats, and senators are appointed by the Governor after being nominated by the Pri Minister.
The main duty of the Senate is to review and and bills passed by the House of Commons, though typically not rejecting bills already passed by the House.
The House of Commons, on the other hand, has 338 seats, with mbers directly elected nationwide, truly exercising national power by the Canadian public.
The House’s primary responsibility is discussing national affairs and enacting laws.
Canada’s executive power lies with the Pri Minister and the Cabinet, similar to the United States in this respect.
Hence, while the Canadian Pri Minister nominally ranks below the Governor and the Führer, they do not possess real power.
The party winning the majority seats in the House of Commons during elections has the authority to form the governnt, with the party leader serving as Pri Minister.
The Pri Minister usually appoints mbers from his own party to the Cabinet, generally not exceeding 40 mbers, with at least one senator serving as a governnt official in the Senate.
The Cabinet is the executive body of Canadian policies, collectively accountable to Parliant.
If defeated in a particular vote of confidence, the Pri Minister must resign, and the Governor may request the opposing party to form a new Cabinet.
Lastly, there is the Canadian judicial institution. Canada’s judicial system includes the Supre Court, national-level Federal Court, various provincial courts, and various military tribunals.
The Supre Court is composed of 1 Chief Justice and 8 associate justices, primarily arbitrating major political, legal, and constitutional issues, as well as major civil and criminal cases appealed by the federation and provinces.
The Supre Court’s decisions are final, and its justices are nominated by the Pri Minister, appointed by the Governor, retiring at age 75.
This is sowhat similar to the United States, with the current U.S. Supre Court also having only nine justices, known as the "Nine Titans."
Currently, Franklin Roosevelt is preparing to tackle the previously dissenting Supre Court, though this process is evidently not easy.
Canada’s political system across the provinces can actually be seen as a smaller-scale Canadian national political system.
Taking Ontario as an example, Ontario’s nominal highest official is the Provincial Governor, also representing Britain’s ruling status in Canada.
Their authority aligns with that of the Canadian Governor, mainly convening and dissolving provincial parliant, signing provincial legislature-passed laws, etc., but actual executive power resides with the provincial parliant-elected Premier and Cabinet.
Yes, each Canadian province also has its own Cabinet.
As for the political structure, it is similar, with legislative, executive, and judicial systems coexisting.
At the municipal level, there are slight differences.
For example, the Mayor of Toronto is directly elected by Toronto’s citizens, granting substantial autonomy!
Donnie, Walker Astor, and Mahalia Astor rested for a day in Toronto before attending a ball hosted by Bruce Currie.
At the ball, Donnie, through Bruce Currie’s introduction, t Ontario’s Premier Mitchell Hepburn and Toronto’s Mayor Ralph Dai.
Mitchell Hepburn is the sa age as Donnie, with a tall stature.
"Mr. Block, welco to Ontario, very glad to see you here!"
Mitchell Hepburn gave Donnie a big hug.
Donnie patted Mitchell Hepburn’s shoulder and laughed, "Mr. Hepburn, maybe we can sit down and have a good chat about that war we both participated in."
Mitchell Hepburn imdiately laughed, but then regrettably said, "Too bad I couldn’t reach the battlefield like you did, Mr. Block!"
In his youth, Mitchell Hepburn, like many youths in the United States and Canada, aspired to beco a lawyer one day.
However, Mitchell Hepburn’s studies were interrupted by an incident while attending school in Elgin County.
At the ti, soone threw an apple at visiting dignitary Sir Adam Becker, knocking off his silk top hat, Hepburn was accused as the perpetrator, he denied the charge but refused to identify the offender, since he refused to apologize, he left high school.
He subsequently found work at the Canadian Comrcial Bank as a bank clerk, worked at the bank from 1913 to 1917, later becoming an accountant at its Winnipeg branch.
When World War I broke out, Mitchell Hepburn joined the 34th Canadian Cavalry, but couldn’t join the Canadian Expeditionary Force due to lack of parental consent.
He later beca a lieutenant in the Canadian Militia’s 25th Elgin Regint, recruited into the 1st Battalion of Western Ontario in 1918.
He then transferred to the Royal Air Force, receiving training at Deseronto, but suffered a car accident injury that sumr, then bedridden from flu in fall, preventing actual combat involvent.
After the war ended, he returned to St. Thomas to run his family’s onion farm.
Post-war, Mitchell Hepburn joined the Ontario Farrs’ Union, aiding in establishing its branch in Elgin County, but switched to the Liberal Party in the mid-1920s.
By 1926, he was elected as the representative for West Elgin in the Canadian House of Commons and re-elected with high votes in 1930.
In 1930, Mitchell Hepburn beca the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, expanded the party’s base by allying with the Progressives, appeasing Liberal and Labor leftists, attempting to solve issues like Roman TZ Catholic schooling and prohibition differences.
His speeches representing Ontario farrs and advocating free trade were renowned for wit over economic insight.
In 1934, leveraging the Great Depression, incompetence of Conservative Premier George Henry, and support from Bruce Currie and mining interests, Mitchell Hepburn achieved a landslide victory in provincial elections, becoming Ontario’s 11th Premier, the youngest in history to hold this position at 37.
And again this year, Mitchell Hepburn was re-elected as Ontario’s Premier.
He’s the only 20th-century leader to lead the Ontario Liberal Party to win majority seats twice.
"That’s simply a matter of luck, nothing to do with your willingness to fight!" Donnie laughed, saying to Mitchell Hepburn.
"Besides, I also want to thank Mr. Hepburn for his help with General Motors this year!"
Donnie brought up another matter with Mitchell Hepburn.
General Motors already established a plant in Canada, and also this year, General Motors’ plant in Oshawa, Ontario, encountered a strike!
The situation mirrored that in the United States, with unions aiming to infiltrate plant managent, demanding higher wages.
During this incident, Mitchell Hepburn clearly sided with General Motors against the union’s demands.
When Ottawa declined to deploy the Royal Canadian Cavalry to resolve this issue.
Mitchell Hepburn organized his volunteers, forming Hepburn’s Light Cavalry, assisting General Motors in solving the strike issue.
Of course, Bruce Currie also played a role here, as historically in that tiline, the strike ended with General Motors ultimately compromising!
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