Measuring Well-Being
The total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in one year.
What is Gross Domestic Product / GDP?
The quality and quantity of goods and services available to a population.
What is Standard of Living?
These schools were official government policy designed to assimilate First Nations children into dominant culture.
What were Residential Schools?
Compulsory enrollment of persons for military service, which caused great tension in Canada during WWI.
What is Conscription?
An international organization formed to facilitate cooperation in security, economic development, and social equity.
What is the United Nations?
This measurement divides a nation's gross national income by its total population.
What is Per Capita Income?
An estimate of the exchange rate needed to equalize what money can actually buy in different countries.
What is Purchasing Power Parity / PPP?
This controversial piece of legislation maintains the supremacy of federal officials over First Nations people.
What is the Indian Act?
This battle saw Canadians fight together as a single army, giving the nation a new sense of pride and identity.
What was the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
This foundation was established to address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in residential schools.
What is the Aboriginal Healing Foundation?
A UN tool that measures human well-being through factors like literacy, education, and life expectancy.
What is the Human Development Index / HDI?
A measure of well-being that includes wealth, happiness, human rights, and personal satisfaction.
What is Quality of Life?
A substance introduced as an inducement to trade, which became a major social problem for many indigenous people.
What is Alcohol?
This 1919 treaty ended WWI and gave Canada a seat at the peace talks, a major step toward sovereignty.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
The principle that a nation or group has the right to decide its own future and form of government.
What is Self-Determination?
A mathematical expression ranging from zero to 100% used to measure the inequality of wealth distribution.
What is the Gini Coefficient?
Terms used interchangeably to describe poorer nations with low industrialization and low HDI scores.
What are Developing or Third World nations?
These crops are grown for money rather than for feeding local families or livestock.
What are Cash Crops?
This principle states that a people should have the right to determine their own system of law and government without intervention by outside forces.
What is Self-determination?
This commission was established to investigate and document the history and lasting impacts of the residential school system.
What was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
A theoretical currency used to compare standard of living between different countries.
What is the International Dollar?
An increase in a country's output of goods and services, usually measured by changes in real GDP.
What is Economic Growth?
Businesses involved in large-scale agriculture, including farming, seed supply, and food distribution.
What is Agribusiness?
The total number of Status Indians from Canada who enlisted to fight in World War I.
What was more than 4,000?
A 2005 agreement struck to provide compensation and a comprehensive approach for residential school survivors.
What was the agreement in principle with the Assembly of First Nations?