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[sivullinen]

OUR PRIME MINISTER TOLD IN HIS BLOG ABOUT TAKING A SHOWER YESTERDAY MORNING.

*glares at own dirty mind* he talked about squeezing, don't judge me!My To Do list is growing all the time but I fail to do anything!! OMG I NEED TO WRITE THAT SPEECH, AND GO SHOPPING AND GAH

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[anyotherknight]

I think I'll vote for your Prime Minister during our election. Too bad I'm not old enough...

[sivullinen]

:D

I actually think he's such a good Prime Minister that I suppose I'm not going to vote for him to become a president :) (I haven't made up my mind yet, though...)

But I'd certainly vote for him in the parliament election, but unfortunately he isn't elected from my district :(

[anyotherknight]

Forgive me, I'm a little uneducated in your government system. How does it work, having a president and a Prime Minister? And how does the district voting work?

[sivullinen]

I'm a little uneducated in your government system.
Well, I know nothing about Canadian system either :D

How does it work, having a president and a Prime Minister?
What do you mean? What're their jobs or something?

And how does the district voting work?
In presidential elections there're no districts, but in parliament elections there're 16 districts, so that different areas will be evenly (according to their population) represented in the parliament. The parliament then chooses the government (=the ministers), and ministers are most often (like now, every one of them) Representatives as well.

[anyotherknight]

LJ is sort of like wikipedia in that respect. I like learning things.

See, we've only got a Prime Minister. And the Govenor General, who acts in the Queen's place, but she's sort of limited. so, yes, what's the difference in their jobs?

So in presidential elections, you just vote for a candidate, but in parliamentary elections do you vote for a specific group, or a person? We vote for representatives in our riding, but the vote also counts as a vote for their party, so the party with the most seats won gains control of the government, and then ministers (Finance, Environment, etc) are chosen. Is that similar?

[sivullinen]

I also love learning things, as well as explaining things :D They're also much more interesting this way - if, for example, in school we would have been required to learn how Canadian system works, I don't think I'd have been that interested. But when it's you telling me things, it's interesting

[anyotherknight]

You know, if my school had given us LiveJournals in grade three instead of penpals from across town, I would've been a much more active participant.

Hmm... that's interesting. I don't even know what system our votes are counted with, but they way our parliaments run does sound similar.

[sivullinen]

Well, I don't know how old you were when you were in grade three (*has no idea of Canadian school system either*), but at least when I was we didn't know how to use Internet, and practically no one had it :P But maybe for future generations they'll give LJs? That'd be cool. And fun.

[anyotherknight]

I was eight. That's when I used the internet for the first time, as they'd started to advertise a website of my favourite programme, so I'm just going by that.