ECON 104 Lecture 1: Chapter 1
14 Aug 2015
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This text was modified by basil golovetskyy under a creative commons attribution- Principles of economics, unattributed, found at http://www. saylor. org/books/. Think about the government as any group of people that can make a decision and implement it even over those who oppose the decision (the government has power and can use coercion). We will be mostly talking about what is generally recognized as the government in canada a group of elected politicians and appointed bureaucrats that make a decision and implement it. The simplest taxonomy of the canadian government considers the three levels of government: federal, provincial, and local/municipal. Note that each of these governments generally has its own sphere of power: Federal: national defense, foreign policy, immigration and citizenship, employment insurance, money, postal services, banking, federal taxes, fisheries, shipping, railways, pipelines, aboriginal lands and rights, criminal law. In other words, the federal government takes care of broadly defined things that affect all canadians.
