Choose your topic from those listed below:

Directions

Choose your topic from those listed below:

Multiculturalism: An old out-dated policy or it is more important than ever for our future?

1. The Role of the Government in our Lives: Need less/different government? or more/different government?

Legalization of marijuana is an overall benefit to Canadian society or will have more negative impacts overall?

1. Supervised drug (injection) sites should be supported by Health Canada and are an effective strategy to preventing overdoses and rehabilitation services or the federal government should not condone the operation of these sites.

Minimum wage hikes should reflect the increasing cost of living and be set by the government or keep with incremental increases and up to the employer?

1. Health and Health Care: Keep universal health care at all costs or privatize the health care system to make it more efficient.

War and Peacekeeping: Expand role of peacemaking or bring back focus of military on peacekeeping?

1. International Aid: Canada should be sending more money to developing countries or less.
2. Real and Suspected Terrorism: More power and authority to Canada’s spy agencies and police to combat terrorist threats? Or these agencies already have too much power.
3. Canada should be doing more to prevent greenhouse gas emissions. For or Against.
4. Exploitation of the Natural Oil resources (oil-Tar Sands/ Natural Gas (Fracking) should take precedence over alternative energy sources until they are depleted.

Preliminary research: Begin to collect and summarize background information on your topic – what are the key words, what historical events are relevant, what is the most current information on the topic, etc.

1. Using your research write a paper . Divide the paper into four sections: 

Explanation of issue with key words and terms

1. Historical and or relevant events

Current information on topic and explain the view of at least two of Canada’s major political parties

1. Explain your opinion on the topic