Canadian Identity
This type of nationalism allows people of different ethnicities, cultures, and languages to belong to the same nation by agreeing to live under a common set of rules.
What is civic nationalism?
This term describes a person who believes Quebec should remain part of Canada.
What is a federalist?
Passed in 1876, this law gave the federal government extensive control over First Nations status, governments, reserves, culture, and education.
What is the Indian Act?
This is alliance to an area within a larger state and to the interests of the people living there.
What is regional loyalty?
This approach encourages people to maintain and celebrate their unique cultures while participating in Canadian society.
What is cultural pluralism?
The maple leaf, beaver, and hockey are all examples of these objects or activities that create an association with Canada.
What are national symbols?
This movement modernized Quebec, improved education, encouraged French-owned businesses, and increased francophone economic power.
What is the Quiet Revolution?
During this event, Indigenous children were removed from their families and placed for adoption in predominantly Euro-Canadian homes.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
This federal energy policy contributed to Western alienation when Alberta suffered job losses after Ottawa intervened in the oil industry.
What is the National Energy Program (NEP)?
Loyalty to a religion, class, region, ideology, culture, or other group that does not seek to become a nation fits this category.
What is a non-nationalist loyalty?
Vimy Ridge and Terry Fox are examples of these stories used to communicate and reinforce Canadian values.
What are national myths and legends?
Passed by the Parti Québécois, this law made French the official language of Quebec and strengthened its use in workplaces and public life.
What is bill 101?
Pierre Trudeau’s government proposed this policy that would eliminate Indian status, dismantle the Department of Indian Affairs, and end the treaty relationship.
What is the White Paper?
This program redistributes federal revenues according to provincial need in an effort to maintain comparable standards of public services.
What are equalization payments?
This principle requires institutions to adapt to minority religious and cultural practices provided those practices do not violate Canadian law.
What is reasonable accommodation?
The CBC, museums, and CRTC are examples of these organizations that can promote Canadian identity.
What are national institutions?
This Quebec separatist organization used violence to promote Quebec independence.
What is the FLQ
A proposed golf course development on disputed Mohawk land and burial grounds led to this 78-day standoff.
What is the Oka crisis?
This pipeline dispute illustrates competing regional interests between Alberta’s oil economy and British Columbia’s environmental, fishing, and tourism concerns.
What is the Trans Mountain Pipeline dispute?
Adopted in 1967, this immigration policy shifted selection toward economic qualifications rather than race or national origin.
What is the Points System?
Greater unity and cooperation are possible benefits of this idea, while alienation, resistance, and separatism are possible consequences.
What is a single national identity?
This approach to federalism recognizes that Quebec may require different powers from other provinces to preserve its language and culture.
What is asymmetrical federalism?
This organization brings together representatives from First Nations communities to provide a stronger voice when dealing with the Canadian government.
What is the AFN?
Wexit is an extreme expression of this feeling that Western Canadian interests are being ignored or harmed by the rest of Canada.
What is Western alienation?
A person who feels pulled between obligations to Canada and another group, region, culture, or homeland is experiencing these.
What are contending loyalties?
Canada can be described this way because one sovereign country contains several distinct nations and national identities.
What is a multi-nation state?
British attempts to weaken French language, political power, and culture often produced this unintended result instead of creating a single identity.
What is stronger Quebec nationalism/resistance to assimilation?
After years of negotiation, this agreement recognized Inuit rights to land, resources, and self-government and gave Inuit extensive control over a territory.
What is the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement?
Canada’s huge territory creates different economies, lifestyles, priorities, and political interests, making this a persistent challenge to Canadian national unity. What challenges Canadian identity?
What is Canada's Geographic challenge for a single national identity, resulting in regionalism?
Name 2 Bills that reflect assimilation attempts from English-Canadian governments. Attempt to create single national identity.
White paper, Indian Act, Royal proclamation, Indian act