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Parlez-vous francais?
Canadian, eh?
Indigenous Issues
Louis Riel
100
The belief that your group is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
100
This province has the most French speaking people in Canada.
What is Quebec?
100

Parliament is made up of these two parts.

What are the House of Commons and the Senate?

100
This discriminatory act was first passed in 1876. While no longer discriminatory, it still exists today.
What is the Indian Act?
100

Riel identified with these two cultural (not religious) groups.

What are French and First Nations?

200

The reason why some provinces have more seats in the House of Commons than other provinces. 

What is rep by pop?

200
French language law that stated only French could be used on commercial (business) signs.
What is Bill 101?
200
Canada is officially bilingual in these two languages.
What are English and French?
200
The numbered treaties (of significant size) that are located in Alberta.
What are Treaties 6,7,8?
200

Document that Metis could exchange for land.

What is scrip?

300
Government provides money for citizens to access a service.
What is publicly funded?
300
The type of school where non-French speaking people go to learn French when they want to be fluent in the language.
What are French immersion schools?
300
The only officially bilingual province in Canada.
What is New Brunswick?
300
Two reasons why the Canadian government wanted to sign treaties.
What are: * Needed to build a railway to BC * Need to settle the West * Wanted to avoid war?
300

Two parts of the Manitoba Act.

What are: * Establishing Manitoba as a bilingual province * Education rights for Catholics and Protestants * Providing Metis land rights

400
Someone who lives in a riding and is represented by an elected official.
What is a constituent?
400
The year that Canada became officially bilingual.
What is 1867?
400
Prime Minister who implemented the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Who is Pierre Elliott Trudeau?
400
The length of time that the Canadian government will honor treaties.
What is forever?
400

Aboriginal rights were entrenched with this section of the Constitution.

What is Section 35?

500
The Canadian government determines that you have the right to access treaty rights.
What is a status Indian?
500
The act that allows Quebec to have extra immigration powers.
What is the Canada - Quebec Accord?
500
These three groups have collective rights in Canada.
What are Francophones, Anglophones, and Aboriginals?
500
The government tried to assimilate First Nations by teaching them English, Math, and Christianity. First Nations were prohibited from speaking their traditional languages and many faced various forms of abuse.
What are residential schools?
500
Because Metis were not fully First Nations, the Canadian government did not believe they had this specific right.
What are land rights?