Is a vision of Canada promoted by author Margaret Atwood who says "survival is that the distills the essences of Canada" and other who claim that Canada is defined by its vast open spaces and climate.
What is a geographic vision?
100
This organization was formed with the United States and Mexico to promote free trade.
What is NAFTA?
100
The Act that created Canada as we know it today.
What is the British North America Act?
100
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NONE!
200
Robert Baldwin
Who is a political leader from Canada West who demanded responsible government - a government that answered to the people instead of the British government.
200
A vision of Canada promoted by John Diefenbaker that promotes Canada's unity as a nation-state.
What is civic nation vision?
200
This organization was formed with the Cold War to protect North America - it includes a partnership between Canada and the United States.
What is NORAD?
200
A government that responds the the needs of the citizens.
What is responsible government?
200
An event where loyalists were welcomed into British North America.
What is the War of Independence.
300
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Who is a political leader from Canada East who demanded responsible government - a government that answers to the people instead of the British government.
300
A vision of Canada that is rooted in diversity and plurality.
What is a multiculturalism vision?
300
This organization is part of the United Nations and promotes peacekeeping and security around the world.
What is NATO?
300
British North America was feeling pressure to incorporate into the United States, struggled to maintain a stable economy in the face of restrictive trade laws and was being attacked by Irish militants. Ultimately BNA political leaders formed a coalition to achieve their own independence.
What is the impact of the Fenians and US Civil War on Canada?
300
It was a major international event that threatened to dissolve Western alliances and undermined the effectiveness of the United Nations. The end result was a UN peacekeeping mission.
What is the Suez Canal Crisis?
400
Lester B Pearson
Who is the Canadian Prime Minister who was heavily involved in foreign affairs. He helped to find an international peace keeping solution to the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956.
400
A vision of Canada promoted by Prime Minister Stephen Harper when he stated that Quebec is a nation within nation.
What is a community based vision, one that supports the integration of different nations?
400
This organization regulates and licenses broadcasting in Canada.
What is the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)?
400
A law passed by the British government legally making Canada an independent country within the British Commonwealth.
What is the Statue of Westminster?
400
The Constitution Act of 1982 was part of this process that brought the Canadian constitution under Canadian control.
What is the repatriation of the constitution?
500
Pierre Trudeau
Who is the Canadian Prime Minister, elected in 1968, that had a federalist vision for Canada. He was a Quebecois but had a vision of a two-language, pluralist society.
500
A vision that suggests a relationship where these two groups "travel in down the same symbolic river in their own vessels."
Who are Canadians and First Nations?
500
This is Canada's largest citizen organization that promotes progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care and other issues of social and economic importance.
What is the Council of Canadians (COC)?
500
An international agreement where Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden successfully fought for independent representation and signatory rights.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
It was a constitutional crisis in Canada that was the impetus for the Statue of Westminster. It helped to defined the role of the governor general in Canada.