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Canada is a federation that comprises ten provinces and three territories. Its government is structured as a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as its sovereign and a Prime Minister as its head of government. Each of the country's provinces and territories also has a head of government, called premier in English.
In Canada, a premier (/ ˈ p r iː m j ər / ⓘ PREEM-yər) is the head of government of a province or territory. Though the word is merely a synonym for prime minister, it is employed for provincial prime ministers to differentiate them from the prime minister of Canada. There are ten provincial premiers and three territorial premiers.
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
Historically, several provinces had bicameral legislatures, but they all eventually dissolved their upper house or merged it with their lower house, so that all provincial legislatures are now unicameral. Members of the legislative assemblies of Canada's provinces and territories are called by various names. In most provinces and all three ...
Premiers of Canadian provinces since Canadian confederation who have subsequently been elected to the House of Commons of Canada.. Dave Barrett - British Columbia; Andrew George Blair - New Brunswick
Doug Ford, the premier of Canada's most populous province, Ontario, has reached out to President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk for a meeting to stave off planned tariffs against, and the idea ...
Attorneys general of Canadian provinces (6 C, 6 P) Deputy premiers of Canadian provinces and territories (13 C, 1 P) Ministers of education of Canadian provinces (3 C)
The Canadian province of Manitoba was created in 1870. [1] Manitoba has a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the Legislative Assembly.