Federalism Activity (5%)

Thursday, September 12th

Task
Objective: Simulate Canadian parliament to understand how regionalism works within the
Canadian political system. You must try to obtain all the money you need to support your
infrastructure, health care and education initiatives.

Rules:
• Each of you will be assigned a province/territory to represent in Parliament.
• 4 of you will be the federal government to determine how to distribute the money.
• Ontario will receive 10 minutes to present their case.
• Quebec will receive 7 minutes to present their case.
• British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, N.W.T, Nunavut, Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, P.E.I, and Newfoundland will each receive 4 minutes to present their
case.
• You can have one speaker or multiple speakers, but everyone must be there to represent
their party.
What you need to prepare
• Research the needs of the province/territory (see Federalism handout
to see your needs for Infrastructure, Education, health care) and
develop strong arguments as to why you need money.
• Complete the “My province or Territory” handout
• Additional research can be done, but make sure you can present all of
your points within the time allocated to your province/territory.
• How you divide the research, writing the arguments and who is/are
the presenter(s) is up to you and your team.
Steps
1. The provincial/territorial representatives present the needs of their
province depending on how much time they have to present.

2. The federal government spends 1 minute to discuss among themselves

and then makes a decision on how to allocate the money. (NOTE: the
federal government can take away or add money at any time to any
province or territory)

3. The next province/territory presents and this continues until all

provinces and territories have presented and received money.

Do you think you can get your province/territory all the money it needs?
Ontario
Karem
Quebec
Thaisa
 B.C.
Jenny
Alberta
Masoud
Manitoba
Andrew
Saskatchewan
Jasmine
Newfoundland
Mehran
Nova Scotia
Jonas
New Brunswick
Eli
 PEI
David
Yukon
Diem
N.W.T.
Nunavut
Federal Government

Kyle