Introduction to Canadian Politics Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of the Canadian political system, focusing on its historical development, underlying principles, and contemporary practices. Students will explore the roles and functions of key political institutions such as Parliament, the executive, and the judiciary, as well as federalism, electoral systems, political parties, and public policy processes. Through analysis of major political actors and events, the course highlights the significance of regionalism, multiculturalism, Indigenous governance, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in shaping Canadian democracy. By the end of the course, students will gain a foundational understanding of how politics operates in Canada and the factors influencing government decision-making.
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Chapter 1: Approaching the Study of Politics
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Q1) In the rational choice approach, "goal-oriented" is synonymous with "preference-oriented."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) What analytical approach is linked closely to the "democratic ideal"?
A)pluralist
B)Marxist
C)class
D)social cleavage
Answer: A
Q3) The state-centred approach views those individuals endowed with the authority to formulate and implement public policies as basically autonomous from the rest of society.
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) The Westminster model is a system of government that provides for a strong legislature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) How is the British parliamentary system distinct from the U.S. presidential-congressional system?
A)Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate have much more legislative power than their British system counterparts.
B)Party discipline is much more rigid in the United States than in the British system.
C)The U.S. presidential-congressional system lacks the power of judicial review.
D)The British system does not permit members to sit in more than one branch of government.
Answer: A
Q3) Newfoundland and Labrador was the last province to be added to Canada.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Regionalism
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which statement best reflects the main goal of the Trans-Canada Pipeline?
A)It delivers Hibernia oil and Nova Scotia gas to central Canada.
B)It delivers Western natural gas to Eastern Canada.
C)It delivers Western oil to central Canada.
D)It delivers services that are similar to a Crown corporation.
Answer: B
Q3) State-centred theorists emphasize the predominance of Ontarians in decision-making positions in Ottawa.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Aboriginal Peoples
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Q1) Indians living on reserves gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1960.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Europeans were originally attracted to Canada by its military significance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The term "Indian" does not include the Métis and Inuit.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is meant by the term "Aboriginal self-government"?
Q5) Which treaty gave the Crown the power to set aside reserves in exchange for the termination of Indian land, but at the same time providing hunting and fishing benefits on unoccupied Crown Land?
A)Calder Treaty
B)Douglas Treaties
C)Nisga'a Treaty
D)The Treaty of Nunavut
Q6) What was the significance of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the Indian Act, 1876 for Aboriginal inhabitants?
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Chapter 5: French Canada and the Quebec Question
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Q1) Only two of the four clauses in Bill 101 were eventually deemed unconstitutional.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are some of the characteristics that make Quebec distinct?
Q3) Known as the Charter of the French Language, what law made French the predominant language in the province of Quebec?
A)Bill 7
B)Bill 8
C)Bill 101
D)the Official Languages Act
Q4) New Brunswick constitutionalized Bill 88 to further protect the right of English and French communities in the province.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How can one apply the pluralist and state-based approaches to the discussion of French-English relations in Canada?
Q6) Compare and contrast the values, attitudes, and demands of the Québécois before and after the Quiet Revolution.
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Chapter 6: Ethnocultural Minorities
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Q1) Immigration is a concurrent constitutional responsibility between both the federal and provincial governments.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Temporary resident workers are not able to apply to become permanent residents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which disadvantaged groups do Canadian employment equity programs normally give preference?
A)women, French, homosexuals, and people with disabilities
B)women, Aboriginals, visible minorities, and people with disabilities
C)women, Aboriginals, homosexuals, and people with disabilities
D)women, French, visible minorities, and people with disabilities
Q4) Canada does not have an official multicultural policy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Conservative party recently found itself with the largest representation of visible minority MPs in its caucus.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Gender
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Q1) The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) actively supported the Meech Lake Accord.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "second wave" of the women's movement began about 1945.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How was sexual orientation added to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
A)through the Parliament of Canada
B)through the Supreme Court of Canada
C)through the constitutional amending formula
D)sexual orientation was not added to the Charter
Q4) What were the main concerns of first-wave feminists?
Q5) In which political venue were women unable to sit until 1929?
A)Senate
B)House of Commons
C)Alberta legislature
D)British Columbia legislature
Q6) What is meant by the term "feminization of poverty"?
Q7) What were the major concerns of second-wave feminists?
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Chapter 8: Class
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Q1) Karl Marx divided society in a capitalist economy into two separate classes. What did he call these two classes?
A)the petite bourgeoisie and the corporate elite
B)the poor and the rich
C)the bourgeoisie and proletariat
D)the upper and middle
Q2) The new middle class includes salaried professionals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Canadian social safety net reached its height in the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Collective bargaining is protected by the freedom of association clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
A)True
B)False
Q5) There are currently almost one million Canadians living in poverty. A)True
B)False
Q6) List five suggestions for how governments could improve the lot of the poor.
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Chapter 9: Urbanrural Location, Religion, and Age
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Q1) Why was gun control legislation opposed by a majority of rural voters?
A)Many rural residents rely on hunting as a food source.
B)Hunting is a traditional part of rural culture.
C)It was felt registration would lead to confiscation.
D)Most rural residents reject state involvement in their daily lives.
Q2) Which group is currently least likely to experience political conflict with each other?
A)Christians and non-Christians
B)religious and non-religious groups
C)Christians and Muslims
D)Catholics and Protestants
Q3) What issue will be most pressing for seniors in the future?
A)health care
B)Old Age Security
C)housing
D)mandatory retirement
Q4) Rural Canada is partly agricultural and the number of people engaged in farming is increasing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Canadas External Environment: The United
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Q1) What is the dispute-settlement mechanism?
A)a provision of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement to settle trade disputes
B)a provision of the Parliament of Canada Act to settle disputes between the House of Commons and the Senate
C)a provision of the Canadian Constitution to settle federal-provincial disputes
D)a provision of the UN Charter to settle disputes among nation states
Q2) What are some of the benefits for Canada to establish a free trade agreement with the U.S.?
Q3) How have international terrorism events, such as 9/11, affected Canadian domestic and foreign policy?
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of globalization?
A)comprehensive free trade agreements
B)mega-mergers of large transnational corporations
C)removal of state controls on corporate behaviour
D)decreasing the mobility of capital
Q5) How has the United States influenced Canada, in terms of economic and cultural influences?
Q6) By 2014, Canada exported the most to the United States.
A)True
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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) Which two parties do NOT have an equal counterpart to any American parties?
A)Conservative and Liberal
B)Liberal and NDP
C)Conservative and NDP
D)NDP and CCF
Q4) How can Canadians achieve a balance between individualism and collectivism?
Q5) The principle of "one person, one vote" is a minimal expression of political equality.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What do current advocates of direct democracy promote?
A)the initiative, recall, and referendum
B)more town-hall style meetings
C)one person, one vote
D)stricter party discipline in the House of Commons
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Chapter 12: Political Socialization, The Mass Media, and Public Opinion Polls
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Q1) Spin doctors are lobbyists who work for the government.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The merging of different companies, cultures, and technologies is a mark of globalization often called convergence.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Agenda setting deals with the manner in which information about an issue is presented.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are some of the issues that can arise from the relationship between the media and politicians?
Q5) What percentage of Canadian homes subscribe to cable or satellite television?
A)50
B)65
C)85
D)90
Q6) How is public opinion in Canada measured?
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Chapter 13: Elections and the Electoral System
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Q1) The percentage of all votes cast that is won by a candidate or a party, regardless of who was elected, is called the qualified majority.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What remedies to Canada's electoral system have been proposed to better reflect the distribution of the popular vote?
Q3) The three territories are each given one seat automatically.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Jean Chrétien's new election finance reforms virtually eliminated corporate contributions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was the first election finance scandal to come to light in Canada?
A)the Beauharnois scandal
B)the Rivard scandal
C)the Gagliano scandal
D)the Pacific scandal
Q6) Describe how election financing has evolved since pre-1974?
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Chapter 14: Political Parties and the Party System
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Q1) The "Parliamentary party" is made up of the party's members of Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Paul Martin led the Liberal Party to defeat in 2008 and was forced to resign immediately.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One-party dominant theory suggests that, rather than viewing the Canadian system as made up of two major parties, it has really been dominated by the Liberal party since 1900.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The federal and provincial Conservative parties are essentially independent of each other.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The CCF party was less socialistic than the current NDP party.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How does party ideology in Canada apply to the major Canadian political parties?
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Chapter 15: The Election Campaign, Voting, and Political Participation
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Q1) Which statement best reflects national media advertising campaigns?
A)It is normally the most expensive part of the election campaign.
B)No party can spend any more than another.
C)All broadcasting time is paid for from the public purse.
D)No party is allowed to use foreign advisers.
Q2) Which party do French Canadians (from both in and out of Quebec) traditionally vote for?
A)Conservative
B)Bloc Québécois
C)NDP
D)Liberal
Q3) One of the Liberals greatest campaign assets in 1993 was their Red Book.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which group, regardless of ethnic background, has a historic tendency to vote Liberal?
A)the unemployed
B)Albertans
C)farmers
D)Roman Catholics
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Chapter 16: Advocacy Groups, Social Movements, and Lobbying
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Q1) What lobbying technique are institutionalized advocacy groups most likely to use?
A)demonstrations and blockades
B)lobbying judges and court officials
C)lobbying the bureaucracy
D)lobbying members of Parliament
Q2) Which statement does NOT describe pressure groups?
A)They assist a department in disseminating government information to a specialized audience.
B)They have delegated powers of self-regulation.
C)They are represented on advisory committees.
D)They are unaffected by elite accommodation.
Q3) Canadian Aboriginal and women's groups use the United Nations to further their domestic causes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How do interest groups try to influence the bureaucracy and the executive branch of the government?
Q5) Discuss three explanations for why advocacy groups are sometimes successful and sometimes not.
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Chapter 17: The Canadian Constitution and Constitutional Change
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Q1) A distinct society clause was NOT part of the Canada clause.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following declared Canada to be totally independent of Britain?
A)Constitution Act 1907
B)The Parliament of Canada Act
C)The British Parliament Act
D)Statute of Westminster
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) The Supreme Court ruled that the rest of Canada would be obliged to negotiate with Quebec if 50 percent + 1 voted in favour of a clear question.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does a written constitution differ from an unwritten one?
Q6) What concerns were raised regarding the Meech Lake Accord, 1982?
Q7) Explain the significance of the Clarity Act.
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Chapter 18: The Federal System
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Q1) Which term describes a division of powers between central and regional governments such that neither is subordinate to the other?
A)provincialism
B)federalism
C)a unitary government
D)constitutionalism
Q2) What were the division of powers between the provinces and the federal government as outlined in the Constitution Act, 1867?
Q3) A conditional grant is given by the provinces to Ottawa providing it meets certain conditions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the conditions set out in the Canada Health Act, 1984 and how well have these been enforced?
Q5) In-between the two world wars, Canada experienced a period of classical federalism.
A)True B)False
Q6) Explain the federal-provincial financial relationship since 1940.
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Chapter 19: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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Q1) Discrimination in the private sector is normally addressed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which characteristic is NOT explicitly listed in section 15 of the Charter?
A)age
B)sexual orientation
C)race
D)physical disability
Q3) What was the significance of the Chaoulli case?
A)It set a limit for the right to be tried within a reasonable time.
B)It overturned the monopoly of public health care insurance for core medical services.
C)It limited freedom of expression in relation to pornography.
D)It extended sexual-orientation protection to same-sex couples.
Q4) Property rights are not generally considered part of civil liberties in Canada. A)True
B)False
Q5) How are rights and freedoms classified? How have they historically been protected?
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Chapter 20: The Policy-Making Process and Policy Instruments
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Q1) The principal players involved in any policy community are sometimes called stakeholders.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT considered a policy instrument?
A)tax expenditures
B)referendum
C)regulation
D)state of emergency
Q3) Since the mid-1980s, governments have increasingly been engaged in nationalization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What term describes the different techniques of government intervention in society?
A)policy communities
B)policy approaches
C)policy initiatives
D)policy instruments
Q5) Describe and explain the significance of policy instruments?
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Chapter 21: The Executive: Crown, Prime Minister, and Cabinet
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Q1) Who is regarded as the highest-ranking public servant?
A)governor of the Bank of Canada
B)Chief of Staff
C)clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to the Cabinet
D)auditor general
Q2) Consider a government characterized by a monarch who is head of state but who rules according to the Constitution, which confides almost all governmental power into other hands. What form of government is this?
A)single executive
B)constitutional monarchy
C)republic
D)dominion
Q3) Parliamentary secretaries are Cabinet ministers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A Canadian constitutional convention requires that each province be represented in the Cabinet.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How powerful is the Prime Minister of Canada?
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Chapter 22: The Bureaucracy
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Q1) The Department of Finance is an opponent of new department spending programs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What reforms to the bureaucracy were proposed by the Gomery Inquiry?
Q3) What has helped to penetrate "the cloak of secrecy" within the Canadian bureaucracy?
A)the Access to Information Act and Information Commissioner
B)the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Commissioner
C)the Sunshine doctrine and the Sunset clause
D)the Ombudsman
Q4) Which of the following prohibited ministers, staffers, and senior public servants from becoming lobbyists for five years after leaving office?
A)Federal Accountability Act
B)Gomery Inquiry
C)Public Service Commission
D)Public Service Modernization Act
Q5) How are responsibility and accountability managed in departments?
Q6) How is the Canadian bureaucracy controlled?
Q7) How do central agencies function in relation to government departments?
Q8) What is the purpose of Crown corporations?
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Chapter 23: Parliament
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Q1) What is NOT considered a principal function of the House of Commons?
A)legislative
B)representation
C)scrutiny
D)judiciary
Q2) What does either side of the House request when they want a formal recorded vote?
A)a closure
B)a division
C)a count
D)a debate
Q3) What is a private member's bill?
A)a bill dealing with a specific individual, corporation, or institution
B)a bill introduced by an MP who is not in the Cabinet
C)a private bill
D)a bill introduced by an opposition MP
Q4) The Cabinet consists of all the elected members of each political party.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the relevance and significance of the Canadian senate.
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Chapter 24: The Judiciary
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Q1) What is the function of the judiciary?
Q2) Reference cases are cases referred to the Supreme Court of Canada by provincial courts.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the powers of the Supreme Court of Canada?
Q4) What is handled by the Federal Court of Canada?
A)divorces
B)immigration and refugee appeals
C)criminal cases
D)charter cases
Q5) Private law is essentially the same as civil law.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are some of the issues and challenges that come with appointing judges?
Q7) Most aspects of criminal law in Canada are within provincial jurisdiction.
A)True
B)False
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Q8) Explain the principle of judicial independence. How does this relate to the removal of judges?