Comparative Politics: Canada Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the core themes, institutions, and processes of Canadian politics within a comparative framework. Students examine how Canadas political system, including its federal structure, parliamentary democracy, and policies on multiculturalism and Indigenous relations, compares with other advanced democracies. Key topics include political parties, electoral systems, governance, public policy, and political culture. Through case studies and critical analysis, the course highlights both the distinctiveness and commonalities of Canadian politics, enabling students to better understand the factors shaping political outcomes in Canada and abroad.
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Chapter 1: The study of politics
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Q1) In the class analysis approach, the political elite takes orders from the capitalist elite and the state is an instrument of bourgeois domination.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Compare and contrast two of the five approaches to the study of politics (institutional, state- based, political sociology, political psychology and political behaviour approaches and rational choice approach).
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q3) What political decision is best described by the class analysis approach?
A)increasing airport and border security
B)adopting the North American Free Trade Agreement
C)increasing funding to universities
D)adopting a clean-air policy
Answer: B
Q4) The Marxist approach is synonymous with the class approach.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Institutional foundations and the evolution of the state
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Q1) A form of government including an elected assembly is called a direct democracy.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q2) In the Westminster model of government, what constitutes the core of the parliamentary system?
A)the legislative assembly
B)the bureaucracy
C)the prime minister and the Cabinet
D)the judiciary
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is associated with a judge's appointment process?
A)Cabinet
B)Auditor General
C)Chief of Staff
D)Governor General
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Regionalism
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Q1) The Prairie provinces succeeded in gaining control of their public lands and natural resources in 1905.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The James Bay hydroelectric project is in Quebec.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) How has Canada has tried to combat regional economic disparities?
A)by encouraging interprovincial trading partnerships
B)by encouraging international ownership of natural resources
C)through regional economic development programs
D)through national economic development programs
Answer: C
Q4) Globalization is one of the reasons for a decline in the manufacturing industry in Ontario.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Aboriginal peoples
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Q1) The first provincial comprehensive land claim settlement was the Nisga'a treaty. A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast the 1995 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the 1997 response of the Chrétien government.
Q3) What are some of the challenges that contemporary Aboriginal people in Canada are currently facing?
Q4) Before 1985, Aboriginal women lost their Indian status if they married a white man.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Calder case gave off-reserve Indians the right to vote in band elections. A)True
B)False
Q6) Aboriginal title means a claim to land based on treaty. A)True B)False
Q7) The term "Indian" does not include the Métis and Inuit A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: french canada and the quebec question
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Q1) What are some of the characteristics that make Quebec distinct?
Q2) In terms of mother tongue, francophones constitute about 35 percent of the Canadian population.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Only two of the four clauses in Bill 101 were eventually deemed unconstitutional.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pierre Trudeau opposed the "special status" or "distinct society" approach for Quebec.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Outline French-English relations within two of the following provinces: New Brunswick, Ontario, and Manitoba.
Q6) The largest francophone minority, expressed as a percentage of provincial population, is found in New Brunswick.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Ethnocultural minorities
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Q1) What approach best describes Canadian ethnoculture during the pre-1970s period?
A)state-based
B)pluralist
C)class analysis
D)public choice
Q2) In recent years, the bulk of immigrants to Canada have come from the Caribbean.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Conservative party recently found itself with the largest representation of visible minority MPs in its caucus.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Britain was the leading source of immigrants between 1900 and 1965.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Immigration is a concurrent constitutional responsibility between both the federal and provincial governments.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why was there a backlash toward immigrants and visible minorities in the 1990s?
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Chapter 7: Gender
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Q1) As a result of a 2003 Court of Appeal decision in Ontario, same-sex partners were allowed to marry.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is meant by the term "feminization of poverty"?
Q3) In which political venue were women unable to sit until 1929?
A)the Senate
B)the House of Commons
C)the Alberta legislature
D)the British Columbia legislature
Q4) What were the main concerns of first-wave feminists?
Q5) The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) was the foremost women's pressure group in the 1970s and 1980s, but has now virtually collapsed.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are some of the major challenges that women face regarding employment?
Q7) Bill C-38 recognized the legality of same-sex marriage.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Class
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Q1) Which group does NOT belong under the petite bourgeoisie class?
A)small business people
B)affluent farmers
C)self-employed professionals
D)civil servants
Q2) There are currently almost 1 one million Canadians living in poverty.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What does it mean to be "class-conscious? How does this sentiment affect the working and poor classes in Canada?
Q4) Even though the House of Commons passed a resolution in 1989 to eliminate child poverty in Canada by 2000, the number of children living in poverty increased by 50 percent during the 1990s.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Since 2004, approximately what percentage of union members have been women?
A)10
B)50
C)60
D)70
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Q1) Explain the historical basis for a separate school system in Canada.
Q2) How is party preference split between urban and rural areas?
Q3) Quebec has maintained a separate school system based on religious affiliation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As early as the 1980s, the recital of the Lord's Prayer in Ontario public schools was outlawed unless it was accompanied by readings from other religious groups.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What issue will be most pressing for seniors in the future?
A)health care
B)Old Age Security
C)housing
D)mandatory retirement
Q6) The Liberal party has essentially been a rural party for generations.
A)True
B)False
Q7) What is the future for Canada's population?
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Chapter 10: CanadaS external environment: the united states and the world
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Q1) An act or threat of violence perpetrated by an ideological group that is intended to produce fear or change is called terrorism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Canadian Anglophones spend about 72 percent of their television viewing time watching local programs
A)True
B)False
Q3) Chapter 21 is the clause in the NAFTA treaty that allows a foreign company to sue a country on the ground that government policies reduced its profits.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which Prime Minister entirely dismantled the National Energy Policy?
A)P.Trudeau
B)B.Mulroney
C)J.Chretien
D)P.Martin
Q5) What have been the results of the Free Trade agreement and NAFTA for Canada?
Q6) Name five of the principle characteristics of globalization.
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Chapter 11: The Canadian Political Culture
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Q1) What are some of the main differences between fragment and formative event theories?
Q2) Seymour Martin Lipset coined the "fragment theory".
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Horowitz, which ideology dominates Canadian political culture?
A)conservatism
B)liberalism
C)socialism
D)communism
Q4) Explain two of the five values that constitute the traditional Canadian political culture.
Q5) The most common form of political participation in Canada is writing letters to the government.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Separatists centre on the "limited identities" and subcultures that characterize Canadian society.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Political socialization, the mass media, and Public opinion polls
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Q1) What are some of the issues that can arise from the relationship between the media and politicians?
Q2) What term is used to describe the sum total of opinions held by members of the public on any subject?
A)political culture
B)public interest
C)public opinion
D)public sector
Q3) During the 1988 election campaign, many groups and companies attempted to influence public opinion about the Free Trade Agreement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a technique of news management?
A)the free flow of information on government operations
B)news leaks and trial balloons
C)government secrecy
D)strategic timing and distribution of information
Q5) How is public opinion in Canada measured?
Q6) How is the media involved in political agenda-setting?
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Chapter 13: Elections and the electoral system
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Q1) How many times in Canadian history has the governor general refused to comply with the Prime Minister's request to dissolve Parliament?
A)never
B)one time
C)two times
D)three times
Q2) Who is in charge of the election process?
A)the governor general
B)the prime minister
C)the chief electoral officer
D)the elections commissioner
Q3) What is NOT necessary for an individual to be nominated as a party's candidate?
A)being endorsed by the party leader
B)filing a financial statement
C)getting 100 local names on his or her nomination papers
D)paying a $1000 deposit
Q4) What remedies to Canada's electoral system have been proposed to better reflect the distribution of the popular vote?
Q5) What are the primary functions of an election in the Canadian political system?
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Chapter 14: Political parties and the party system
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Q1) Explain the term "the iron law of oligarchy" as it relates to political parties.
Q2) Canada moved from a Conservative-dominant party system to a classic two-party system with the Liberal victory in 1896 under Mackenzie King.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What party system categorized the decade between 1993 and 2003?
A)two-plus party system
B)two-plus-two party system
C)multiparty system
D)three party system
Q4) How does party ideology in Canada apply to the major Canadian political parties?
Q5) The "Parliamentary party" is made up of the party's members of Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Liberalism emphasizes government planning, regulation, ownership of some of the major industries, progressive taxation, and redistribution of income via social programs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Parties, voting, and The election campaign
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Q1) Regional factors have recently been the strongest sociodemographic influence in Canadian voting behaviour.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Traditionally, which party have French Canadians (from both in and out of Quebec) voted for?
A)Conservatives
B)Bloc Quebecois
C)NDP
D)Liberals
Q3) Explain the sociodemographic bases of political party support in Canada.
Q4) Describe how an individual candidate competes for office at the local level?
Q5) The Roman Catholic support for the Liberal party has exponentially increased over the past decade.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Party advertising has recently become more synonymous with the concept of political marketing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Advocacy groups, social movements, and lobbying
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Q1) How does the federal structure of government affect the way in which pressure groups are organized?
Q2) What group produces the annual Alternative Federal Budget document?
A)Canadian Chamber of Commerce
B)Canadian Labour Congress
C)Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
D)Canadian Bar Association
Q3) The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is more of a radical group than the National Farmer's Union.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What political party is linked to the Canadian Labour Congress?
A)NDP
B)Liberal
C)Conservative
D)Bloc Quebecois
Q5) How do interest groups try to influence the bureaucracy and the executive branch of the government?
Q6) What are the functions of advocacy groups?
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Chapter 17: The Canadian constitution and constitutional change
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Q1) Which section of the Charter ensures that Aboriginal and treaty rights are not diminished by the Charter?
A)Section 35
B)Section 25
C)Section 30
D)Section 20
Q2) What province was NOT part of the new Dominion of Canada that was formed through the Constitution Act of 1867?
A)Nova Scotia
B)Prince Edward Island
C)New Brunswick
D)Ontario
Q3) The Supreme Court ruled that Quebec had a right to a unilateral declaration of independence based on both international law and the Canadian Constitution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What concerns were raised regarding the Meech Lake Accord, 1982?
Q5) Explain the significance of the Clarity Act.
Q6) How have the constitutional changes affected Aboriginal Canadians?
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Chapter 18: The provinces and the federal system
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Q1) Between 1867 and 1945, what type of federalism was classified as the first period of Canadian federalism?
A)quasi-federalism
B)classical federalism
C)emergency federalism
D)cooperative federalism
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a condition of the Canada Health Act, 1984?
A)comprehensive
B)universal
C)portable
D)independent
Q3) In the Constitution, the provincial taxation powers are restricted to sales taxes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the federal-provincial financial relationship since 1940.
Q5) A conditional grant is given by the provinces to Ottawa providing it meets certain conditions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: The charter of rights and freedoms
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Q1) What rights are covered under Sections 3-5 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
A)democratic
B)legal
C)equality
D)fundamental
Q2) The reasonable limits clause is Section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What rights are not enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedom, although it is recognized in law?
A)economic
B)equality
C)legal
D)language
Q4) Who was responsible for enacting the Canadian Bill of Rights?
A)Pierre Trudeau
B)Lester B.Pearson
C)McKenzie King
D)John Diefebaker
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Chapter 20: Governing: the policymaking process and policy instruments
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Q1) Explain the six phases of the policymaking process.
Q2) The principal players involved in any policy community are sometimes called stakeholders.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe and explain the significance of policy instruments?
Q4) Which group is typically NOT involved in the initiation stage of the policymaking process?
A)election platform
B)caucus
C)the judiciary
D)royal commission
Q5) Which of the following is NOT considered a policy instrument?
A)tax expenditures
B)referendum
C)regulation
D)state of emergency
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Q6) In terms of government intervention, explain how the role of the state has evolved over the last 100 years.
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Chapter 21: The executive: crown, prime minister, and cabinet
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Q1) Parliamentary secretaries are Cabinet ministers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The speech from the throne is written and delivered by the governor general.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which part of the country was not adequately represented in Trudaeu's cabinet?
A)Eastern Canada
B)Ontario
C)Quebec
D)Western Canada
Q4) It is possible for the prime minister to name someone to the Cabinet who has not won the election.
A)True
B)False
Q5) An order in council is a formal decision taken by the Canada Council.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the advantages and disadvantages of the monarchy?
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Chapter 22: The bureaucracy
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Q1) In terms of workforce, the smallest department is the Department of Finance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Every province except Nova Scotia has supplemented other means of controlling the bureaucracy with the appointment of an ombudsman.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An elaborate, expensive investigation set up by the Cabinet to make recommendations on a significant policy problem is called a task force.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What government department employs the largest number of civil servants?
A)Human Resources and Skills Development
B)Treasury Board
C)Public Works and Government Services
D)National Defence
Q5) The Department of Finance is an opponent of new department spending programs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: The bureaucracy
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Q1) The Cabinet has an absolute monopoly on the introduction of financial legislation in the House.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If a nonconfidence motion passes, the government must do one of two things.One option is to resign.What is the second option?
A)Ask the governor general for another chance.
B)Ask the Opposition for another chance.
C)Hold a referendum.
D)Call an election.
Q3) There were 12 minority governments between 1867 and 2011.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How many hours a week are reserved for private member bills and motions?
A)2
B)5
C)10
D)15
Q5) Explain the concept of party discipline.
Q6) What are the stages of a bill becoming a law?
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Chapter 24: The judiciary
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Q1) Until 1949, all decisions made by the Supreme Court of Canada could be appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the function of the judiciary?
Q3) Who is the most recently appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada?
A)Beverley McLachlin
B)Marie Deschamps
C)Rosalie Abella
D)Morris Fish
Q4) Which of the following is NOT considered an aspect of adjudication?
A)mediating differences between two disputing parties
B)interpreting the law in cases of dispute
C)applying the law to settle disputes
D)making a judgment
Q5) Explain the principle of judicial independence.How does this relate to the removal of judges?
Q6) Most aspects of criminal law in Canada are within provincial jurisdiction.
A)True
B)False
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