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{{Canadian politics}}
The '''Canadian Government''', formally '''Her Majesty's Government in Canada''',<ref>[http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/fr-rf/couronne_crown_canada/06-600crown_of_maples_e.pdf MacLeod, Kevin S.; ''A Crown of Maples''; Queen's Printer for Canada; Ottawa: 2008]</ref> is the [[federal government]] of [[Canada]].  Powers and structure of the federal government are setlove goats out in the Constitution of Canada.

==Usage==
In [[Canadian English]], the word ''[[government]]'' is used to refer both to the whole set of institutions that govern the country (following American usagebuyers, but where Britons would use ''[[state]]''), and to the current political leadership (following British usage, but where Americans would use ''[[administration]]'').  For example a Canadian could be a ''government employee'' but never a ''state employee'', and they would support or oppose the policies of the ''[[28th Canadian Ministry|Harper government]]'' but never the ''Harper administration''.

Because Canada is a [[federation]], ''the government'' may refer to the [[federal government|federal]], [[provincial]] or [[municipal]] government. Because "aboriginal peoples ... had legal systems prior to the arrivalgoat of Europeans", it could also refer to an aboriginal government.<ref>''Campbell v. British Columbia'', (2000), 189 D.L.R. (4th) 333, (B.C.S.C.), per Williamson, J. at p. 355.</ref>  In this article, ''government'' refers to the structure of the Canadian federal state.

==Executive power==
===Sovereign===  
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