What is the structure of government in Canada?
Canada has a federal-parliamentary form of government. Queen Elizabeth II, represented by the Governor-General, is the Chief of State while the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Justin Pierre James Trudeau, is the country’s Chief Executive. As the second largest country in the world, Canada is comprised of ten provinces Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan, and three territories, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon. Canada’s ten provinces are headed by provincial Premieres, and their provincial parliaments are located in their respective provincial capitals, like Toronto for Ontario, Quebec City for Quebec. Like the United Kingdom, Canada has an unwritten Constitution and like the United States and the United Kingdom, Canada subscribes to the Anglo-American common-law system while Quebec follows the civil law system. Canada’s highest judicial tribunal is the Supreme Court of Canada, comprised of nine Justices appointed by the Prime Minister and serve until the mandatory retirement age of 75.
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