The Canadian political system iceberg explained

Learned quite a few things JJ! That was well done!

I am very convinced the "Canadian Supreme Court" is in fact the "Santa Clause Impersonation Committee"

25:46 This reminds me of when my country, Hungary, had a queen called Mary, whose official title was King Mary because the Hungarians were not familiar with the term "queen" at the time.

If I ever met JJ in person I'd tell him I appreciate how he uses 80's midi audio files in his videos.

I love the prevalence of newspaper clippings in this photo, because I think it’s a medium which shows the way in which most Canadians, for most of Canadian history, interacted with politics. Newspapers are effectively a dead and long-lost medium now, but for many people around the world they formed the centre of how people interfaced with an often far-away capital, only ever seeing the names and faces of cabinet ministers in print. I think it’s great that this video, in a medium through which I certainly get most of my Canadian politics news, harkens back to its old equivalent and keeps that alive for a new generation.

Man I thought the American government had weird clauses. This whole video feels like oh yeah, there’s also this other branch of government but they don’t do anything.

Before watching this I assumed that your parliamentary democracy would be similar to our parliamentary democracy here in Australia. I now know that the two are completely different. You have my heartfelt sympathy.

Speaking of the usefulness of your vids, they haven't only made me interested in Canadian politics, but also made me understand how it works in the first place. The second one is important, because it does differ from how it works in my country. Not only am I a very political person in the domestic setting, but I also enjoy learning about the politics of other countries. Cheers from Poland - a fellow white and red country :)

Kurtis Conner and JJ dropping hour-long videos at the same time? I'm truly in for a Canadian evening.

WOAH THE PRODUCTION QUALITY ON THIS IS INSANE!

48:09 - To note, Technically Quebec's Population is not "in decline", it is growing in population, it's just growing at a much slower rate than the rest of Canada, which has lead to their share of the total population to decline.

28:55 I was surprised to see NFKRZ in this video. Nice easter egg JJ!

I love how our constitution imagines Canada as being glazed in amber and simply never changing. In terms of the population distribution, the changing use of languages, the super protected rights, and the religious protections of certain schools, all these demographics can shift and change to the point in the future where perhaps, French is no longer a recognizable language, Prince Edward Island could have a significantly large population, or Catholicism folds as a church, yet is still enshrined in the constitution. Much like how the drafters could not imagine Queen Victoria dying, they cannot imagine a Canada any different from their own time.

As someone who is really getting into Canadian history/politics recently, i found this very interesting and fun

I find it funny how Canada has managed to combine the symbolic complexity uncertainty and ambiguity of the unwritten constitution of the UK, with the proceduralist/textualised rigidity of US Constitutional Law. In the UK constitutional symbols still make some kind of practical sense, given they maintain a closer connection to entrenched rituals/traditions/history/political conventions, but in Canada there is an extra layer removed of abstraction, complexity, and confusion (perhaps even hollowness). Like in the UK, there is an uncodified flexible constitution that focusses on substance rather than procedure; in Canada there is a written constitution, but which still contains precepts that are unwritten/undefined/unknowable, combined with a spuriously precise and procedurally rigid form of constitutionalism/federalism that's almost impossible to amend like the US. Also compare the added layers of abstraction of: [UK v Can] – the Crown v Governor-General – Cabinet v Privy Council – Crown-in-Parliament v the Governor-in-Council – (+ a textualist approach to rights that's formalistically easy to ignore e.g. notwithstanding clause declarations).

I think it would be hilarious to see the rest of the provinces start their own branches of Bloc that run candidates explicitly on the policy of kicking Quebec out of Canada.

J.J. I want to thank you personally because I actually just aced my Citizenship exam, and although the little booklet was nice your chanel has taught me more about Canadian history and politics than anything else. Thank you!

Itd be pretty cool to have a video on Canadian-specific political jargon like “walk in the snow” “the 905” etc

I really needed a comfortable JJ video for Sunday evening night (its 9pm in Croatia) to chill after a hard week

that nfkrz bit was so random but i love it