GROUP stands for
Government, Rule of law, Organized Institutions, Unity, Place
This Prime Minister introduced the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, official bilingualism, and the metric system to Canada.
Who is Pierre Elliott Trudeau?
The ideology that puts national interests first.
What is Nationalism
The FLQ, the militant separatist group that triggered the 1970 crisis, stands for this French name
What is the Front de libération du Québec?
Signed in 1975 by the Inuit and Cree of Northern Quebec, this is widely considered Canada’s first modern-day land claims agreement.
What is the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement?
RELIC stands for
Religion, Ethnicity, Language, Intolerance, Culture
The official recognition of a nation's ability to rule itself.
What is Sovereignty?
To handle the crisis, the federal government invoked this peacetime act for the first and only time in Canadian history, suspending civil liberties.
What is the War Measures Act?
This Métis leader led the Red River and Northwest Rebellions to protect Indigenous rights and is recognized as the founder of Manitoba.
Who is loui Riel
Diagnosed with bone cancer, this young athlete ran 5,373 kilometers in his 1980 "Marathon of Hope" to raise money for cancer research.
Who is Terry Fox?
The power to control one's own affairs.
What is self-determination?
This period of rapid secularization, modernization, and social change in 1960s Quebec shifted the province's identity from traditional French-Canadian to a modern Québécois nationalism.
What is the Quiet Revolution?
This 78-day standoff in the summer of 1990 pitted Mohawk land defenders against the Quebec provincial police and the Canadian military.
What is the Oka crisis?
The act of participating in national customs.
What is Patriotism?
Long before the 1970 kidnappings, the FLQ used this weapon over 200 times against symbols of British colonialism, including mailboxes and military armories.
What are bombs?
Often called the "birth of Canadian national identity," this April 1917 World War I battle saw all four divisions of the Canadian Corps fight together as a unified force for the first time.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
A group of people where the members have a common culture.
What is an Ethnic Nation?
One of the FLQ's core demands for releasing their hostages was the broadcasting of this political document on national television, which CBC aired on October 8.
What is the FLQ Manifesto?
This federal law, first passed in 1876, granted the Canadian government sweeping control over First Nations identity, political structures, and traditional governance.
What is the Indian Act?