Brazil & Canada

Brazil

• has been a federal republic since 1988
• Dlima Rousseff was elected on Oct 31, 2010
• She was then re-elected on Oct 26, 2014
• Is expected to stay in office for the next 4 years until the next elected
• Some way that people have the ability to change leader:
• Impeach Rposseff
• Kill the president
• Press charge and bring her in front of another kind of government

 Canada

• a parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy
• The monarch is the head of state, but they have a constitution giving them the right to elect their own government
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced a new "family tax cut," a version of the family income-splitting promise he made during the 2011 federal election, along with increases to monthly child care benefit cheques and to the amount taxpayers can deduct for child care expenses.
• Canada is a federation of ten provinces  and three territories.
• Covering most of the northern part of the North American continent and with an area larger than that of the United States, Canada has an extremely varied topography.
• Their government has been under constitutional monarchy since April 17, 1882.
• In 1931, Canada became one of the Commonwealth Countries.
• There was a period of time when Canada was under British rule.
• In 1931, The statute of Westminster will be upgraded to dominion of Canada have diplomatic and military autonomy, but still be attributed to king name (such as the royal Canadian army)
• Stephen Harper has been in power for eight years and he started in January 23, 2006.
• He has been a member of Parliament since 2002.
• He is also the 22nd Prime Minister of Canad
• He get re-elected in September, 2008.
• It is expected that Stephen Harper will stay in power past 2015
• He is also expected to be Prime Minister for a decade
• People say that Stephen Harper can’t be impeached
• It was discovered that he can be because Canada has the same government as England
• Impeaching a leader has worked in England so that’s why they think Harper can be impeached
• Many people have protested for Harper to be out of office in Canada
• He has been in office for eight years but some people have protested against him