We viewed some videos on YouTube about Canadian Democracy:
1. How Canada Became a Democracy - Part 1
2. How Canada Became a Democracy - Part 2
3. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
We then created a Venn diagram that compares Ancient Athenian democracy to Canada's.
Here are the similarities:
- Voting
- Government meet in assemblies (e.g. city hall, Legislative Assembly, House of Commons)
- Need to be a citizen to vote
- Has a court system
Differences:
Ancient Athens:
- direct democracy - citizens vote and debate directly on issues
- To vote, a person must be: male, 20+, own land, have served in the military, and be a citizen
- People were organized into categories: slaves, metics, and citizens
- Foreigners cannot vote, even if they had lived in Athens for decades
- Parents have to be Athenian to vote
- Genders are not treated equally
Canada
- indirect democracy - citizens vote for people to represent them at different levels of government
- To vote, a person must be: 18+, citizen - males and females can vote
- We have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Don't have to be Canadian-born to vote
- We have a monarch
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