CANADA - Famous place

The Parliament of Ottawa

The construction of the current Canadian Parliament Buildings, seat of government, began on December 20^th 1861 by the British colony on Barrack's Hill, which later became Parliament Hill. The parliament in Ottawa is the oldest of the supreme authority in the federal state of Canada and therefore supersedes all federal agencies.

The parliament consists of a head represented by the British monarch (in reality the government and the prime minister) the Senate (representing the provinces and territories) and the House of Commons (representing the people). In the absence of the British monarch, she is represented by the Governor General, who appoints the 105 members in the opinion of the Privy Council of the Queen and the 308 sworn deputies of the House of Commons after the election by a vote by districts. The Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper was sworn in on February 6^th 2006. He is the 22nd Prime Minister of the Confederacy, his Conservative party winning 125 of the 308 seats in the 2006 federal election. He was reappointed to this position in a minority government after elections in 2008. He got a majority government in the elections of May 2^nd , 2011.

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