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Canada is a parliamentary democracy. The head of state is technically the Queen of England, who is represented in Canada by the Governor General, who acts as head of state on the Queen's behalf--thus, Canada is a kingdom. However, the Governor General/Queen have no true political power, which rests entirely with the legislature (parliament). Parliament has a lower house called the House of Commons; the prime minister and cabinet are all members of this house. The upper house of Parliament is the Senate, which is minimal political power, and its members are appointed for life by the Governor General/Queen.

Each province of Canada is also a kind of mini-kingdom/parliamentary democracy: the Queen's official representative and acting head of state of each province is the Lieutenant Governor, and then each province has a parliament, structured very much like the federal parliament except that the political head of a province is not a prime minister but a "premier."

Canada has an politically separate court system as well, headed by the Supreme Court.

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