trip

We have been studying for many days the Canadian Charter of rights. So we had an activity last Wednesday to go to the Ontario Legislative Building. Sharon is a good teacher with much energy and patience. In her class she made so many instances that we can well learn the spirit of the Canadian human rights. We got off the subway train at Queen’s park station. The parliament building is near the station. I have been to the University of Toronto, and  have seen the building, but I do not know it is the Parliament building of Ontario.  We entered the building. A guide took us to visit it. At first, we saw the Speaker’s chair, she told us that when the Speaker retires he can take the chair away. There is a Speaker who retired, but he said that his house was too small to hold the chair, so he left the chair there. Now the Speaker took the copy of the chair home when he retired. Speaker lived in the building with his family. Every Speaker has a HON.(Honourable) title. Then we went to see the Mace with two shining diamonds.  We continued to the other side of the building, the guide told us that this side of the building is supported by marble posts after the fire of 1813. We went upstairs, and saw that the first office in the second floor is Kathleen Wynne’s. Along the aisle we would visit the chamber. On the wall, the door’s left the picture of Queen is hung, the right is Prince Philip’s picture. We entered the chamber, it is not very big. At first, I noticed the Speaker’s chair is in the front of chamber. In front of it there are the clerk’s table and the typewriter’s table. Liberal party is on the left side, NDP and other small parties are on the right side. Kathleen Wynne sits in the sixth in the first row of the left side.

Then the visit was finished.

China is a communist nation. The highest power is grasped tightly by seven people. In China not all the people care about politics. The radio, TV, publishing are controlled by the government. Everyday's news say China is the best in the world, the situation is peaceful, and the leaders devote their life to the country, however, outside China the situation is terrible. This happens everyday. When we were young, we trusted the government,because

we only can get the information from the tongue of the party—the newspaper, TV, radio, and political study. But now, the Internet has developed very quickly, we can share the information in every place in the world. Someone posted something in the Internet, people can see it in the other side of the world less than one minute. In China, if a big accident happens, the local officials maybe hide the truth, otherwise they would be punished by the government. But not all the messages can be kept secret, more or less it may be leaked. Someone living near the place may have knew it, he may tell his  friends with chat applications in the Internet. The message spreads quickly and makes a huge impact. Now, people can supervise officials through the Internet.It is often not the supervision department who found the crime clue first.  

So people in China want the politics to be more transparent, and based on three principles--openness, fairness and justice.

In Canada, people have the right to criticize the leaders, if the leaders have done or said something wrong, they may be abused, and even be dismissed.