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Canada (for conventional and legal use; "Dominion of Canada"
remains legal but rarely used) Type of government  Westminster
style federal parliamentary democracy within a constitutional
monarchy. Ottawa, Ontario. Administrative divisions  National
holiday  Westminster system, based on unwritten conventions and
written legislation. Legal system  English common law for all
matters within federal jurisdiction and in all provinces and
territories except Quebec, which is based on the civil law,
based on the Custom of Paris in pre-revolutionary France as set
out in the Civil Code of Quebec; accepts compulsory
International Court of Justice jurisdiction, with reservations.
Citizens aged 18 years or older. Only two adu