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He was the first Prime Minister of Canada and played a key role in creating the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Who is John A. Macdonald?
This term describes a society or government that recognizes and respects the coexistence of diverse cultural, ethnic, or religious groups.
What is pluralism/pluralistic?
This 1923 Act effectively closed Canada’s doors to Chinese immigrants, marking one of the most exclusionary immigration policies in Canadian history.
What is the Chinese Immigration Act?
Founded in 1670, this company controlled vast fur trading territories in North America and played a major role in Canada’s early economic development.
What is the Hudson’s Bay Company?
Signed in 2020, this agreement replaced NAFTA to govern trade between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
What is the USMCA?
In the 1840s, this French Canadian politician partnered with Robert Baldwin to form the first responsible government in Canada.
Who is Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine?
Describes a place or person characterized by an openness to international ideas, lifestyles, and customs.
What is cosmopolitan?
This 1876 law aimed to assimilate Indigenous peoples into Euro-Canadian society by controlling their governance, culture, and land.
What is the Indian Act?
This agency is responsible for collecting taxes and ensuring Canadians contribute their share to funding public services across the country.
What is Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CRA)?
This concept affirms that Indigenous peoples have the natural authority to self-govern, based on their historic presence and traditions, not granted by colonial laws.
What is an inherent right?
This politician famously said, “An unsettled West was an undefended West,” emphasizing the need to populate Western Canada.
Who is Clifford Sifton?
This term describes what happened when Canada gained the full ability to amend its own Constitution without needing approval from the United Kingdom.
What is patriation?
In 1998, the Canadian government signed a landmark land-claim agreement recognizing self-government rights for this First Nation in British Columbia, which had never signed a treaty.
Who are the Nisga’a?
Founded in 1985, this organization advocates for clean water, fair trade, and social justice, aiming to protect Canadian values and resources.
What is the Council of Canadians?
This form of nationalism defines membership in a nation based on shared citizenship, laws, and political rights, rather than ethnicity or culture.
What is civic nationalism?
He strongly opposed conscription in World War I, believing it threatened French Canadian rights and deepened divisions between English and French Canadians.
Who is Henri Bourassa?
Introduced in 1957, these are made by a federal government to less wealthy provinces to ensure comparable levels of public services across the country.
What are equalization payments?
Wilfrid Laurier’s government tried to limit Black American immigration by persuading them that...
What is: convincing them that Canada’s climate is unsuitable?
This regulatory body enforces Canadian content quotas on radio and TV to help preserve and promote Canadian culture and identity.
What is the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)?
This folk singer wrote and performed “The Hockey Song,” often called an unofficial Canadian anthem celebrating the country’s favorite sport.
Who is Stompin’ Tom Connors?
Known for championing Quebec’s independence, this Premier introduced the Charter of the French Language to protect the province’s French culture.
Who is René Lévesque?
In this type of federal system, some provinces or states have more powers than others. Ex. How Quebec in Canada has unique control over immigration and language laws.
What is asymmetrical federalism?
Francophone communities in Canada have long feared this process, which could cause them to lose their language, culture, and identity within a predominantly English-speaking country.
Founded in 1971, this organization sends young Canadians abroad and welcomes international youth to Canada for community development and cultural exchange.
What is Canada World Youth?
This term describes the feeling of political and economic frustration in provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan, who believe their interests are ignored by the federal government.
What is Western alienation?