Unit 1: identity
This ensures that there is Canadian content on radio and television.
What is the CRTC?
After the arrival of Europeans, this indigenous group of Newfoundland disappeared.
Who are the Beothuk?
The elimination of tariffs and trade barriers.
What is trade liberalization OR free trade?
Support given to countries in need, whether in the form of money, people, or supplies. May come from governments or NGOs.
What is foreign aid?
When the government uses trade barriers to promote the well-being of their own businesses over foreign companies.
What is protectionism?
The ownership of media companies in the hands of only a few individuals or corporations.
What is media concentration?
Created in 1876, this defined relations between Canada and ”indians”.
What is the Indian Act?
Organization that lends money to countries that are struggling.
What is the IMF or the World Bank?
Socioeconomic gap between individuals, communities or countries.
What is disparity?
The long-lasting negative impacts experienced by indigenous children that grew up in residential school.
What are legacies?
When an individual or a group of individuals practice aspects of another culture.
What is acculturation?
Economic practice during the 1500s to 1800s, by which European monarchs sponsored businesses, with the goal of making themselves (“the mother country”) rich.
What is mercantilism?
Critics say it led to Canada and the United States losing jobs to Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
Text adopted in 1948 by the United Nations, stipulating that all human beings are equal in political, civil, economic, social and cultural terms, and in terms of justice.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The USMCA trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the USA is an example of this dimension of globalization.
What is economic globalization?
Successful incorporation of an individual into a group, or of a minority group into society in general.
What is integration?
The transition from a rural and artisanal (cottage industry) society to an urban and industrial society.
What is industrialization OR the industrial revolution?
Agreement signed after the Second World War, the purpose of which was to establish rules, institutions and procedures for the postwar global economy.
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement/Conference?
This measure of economic prosperity (usually per capita) can indicate standard of living.
What is GDP?
A Eurocentric policy of economic, political, and social domination of a colony; used social Darwinism as its justification.
What is imperialism?
Mixing two or more cultural elements in new ways.
What is hybridization?
On this continent, decolonization from the imperialist powers often resulted in: dictatorships, instability, civil war, genocide.
What is Africa?
These two economists disagreed about the role of government in the economy.
Who are Hayek and Keynes?
An arrangement where increased prices for companies/consumers means that the producers in developing countries will receive fair wages.
What is fair trade?
To promote long-term prosperity, individuals and groups like the United Nations promote this idea/practice, which means taking on the responsibility of ensuring that the planet's resources will last for future generations.
What is stewardship OR sustainability?