Canadian Political Thought Exam Practice Tests
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Canadian Political Thought explores the evolution and diversity of political ideas in Canada, examining how historical, social, and cultural influences have shaped the nation's political landscape. The course analyzes foundational texts, key thinkers, and pivotal debates about democracy, federalism, nationalism, multiculturalism, Indigenous governance, and rights. Students critically assess how Canadian political ideologies respond to questions of identity, community, and state power, while considering the unique context of bilingualism, regionalism, and colonial histories. Through readings, discussions, and scholarly analysis, the course fosters a deeper understanding of the theoretical underpinnings that continue to inform contemporary Canadian politics.
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Chapter 1: The study of politics
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Q1) Government authority is based on accountability.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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).
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Q3) The notion that the operations of the state are so extensive that they are connected to virtually every aspect of society is called the state-centred approach.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) In the rational choice approach, "goal oriented" is synonymous with "preference-oriented".
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 role of government in Canada most extensive in the early 1980s.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) The Act of Union united Ontario and Quebec.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following was a recommendation of the Durham Report?
A)the creation of Prince Edward Island
B)municipal governing policies
C)official bilingualism
D)responsible government
Answer: D
Q4) 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) Which theory emphasizes the importance of natural resources to the Canadian national economy?
A)Keynesian economic
B)public choice
C)metropolitan-hinterland
D)staples
Answer: D
Q2) In the 1980s, Newfoundland fought the federal government over the ownership of fish stocks.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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) 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
Q2) The armed standoff at Oka related to a dispute over land to be used for a golf course.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare and contrast the 1995 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the 1997 response of the Chrétien government.
Q4) Before 1985, Aboriginal women lost their Indian status if they married a white man.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are some of the challenges that contemporary Aboriginal people in Canada are currently facing?
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Chapter 5: french canada and the quebec question
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Q1) The failure of the Meech Lake Accord sparked the creation of the Bloc Québécois.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The largest francophone minority, expressed as a percentage of provincial population, is found in New Brunswick.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The limit on Bill 178 was 5 years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Only two of the four clauses in Bill 101 were eventually deemed unconstitutional.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Outline French-English relations within two of the following provinces: New Brunswick, Ontario, and Manitoba.
Q6) Compare and contrast the values, attitudes, and demands of the Québécois before and after the Quiet Revolution.
Q7) What are some of the characteristics that make Quebec distinct?
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Chapter 6: Ethnocultural minorities
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Q1) Visible minorities constitute approximately 16 percent of the Canadian population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are some of the advancements in Canadian policies that have contributed toward creating equality and overcoming discrimination among ethnic Canadians?
Q3) In recent years, the bulk of immigrants to Canada have come from the Caribbean.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a category of permanent residents?
A)Family Class
B)Economic Class
C)Refugees
D)Foreign Workers
Q5) What approach best describes Canadian ethnoculture during the pre-1970s period?
A)state-based
B)pluralist
C)class analysis
D)public choice
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) The ruling in the Persons case was that women could sit in the House of Commons.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which statement best describes employment equity programs in Canada?
A)These programs were designed to give preference to groups discriminated against in the past.
B)These programs have made women predominant in the public sector.
C)These programs have made women predominant in the private sector.
D)These programs have made women predominant in both the public and private sectors.
Q3) What is the significance of Section 28 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
A)It provides equality for all people, regardless of age, race, or religion.
B)It protects women's rights from use of the notwithstanding clause.
C)It allows provincial governments to infringe on equality rights of minorities.
D)It protects the French language and culture outside Quebec.
Q4) The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) actively supported the Meech Lake Accord.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What were the main concerns of first-wave feminists?
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Chapter 8: Class
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Q1) List five suggestions for how governments could improve the lot of the poor.
Q2) Why are the corporate elite thought to wield so much political power in Canada?
Q3) The Social Credit Party pioneered hospital and medical insurance at the provincial level in Saskatchewan.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is NOT usually a demand of the corporate elite?
A)tax cuts for individuals
B)cutting transfer payments to provinces
C)deregulation
D)removing the tax advantages of income trusts
Q5) Since 2004, approximately what percentage of union members have been women?
A)10
B)50
C)60
D)70
Q6) The Canadian social safety net reached its height in the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Explain the term "corporate welfare."
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Chapter 9: Other cleavages and identities: urban/rural
location, religion, and age
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Q1) Rural Canada is partly agricultural and the number of people engaged in farming is increasing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Rural Canada is overrepresented in the House of Commons.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain the historical basis for a separate school system in Canada.
Q4) What percentage of the Canadian population lives in Ontario and Quebec?
A)52
B)55
C)62
D)72
Q5) What was the first main religious demand in Canada?
A)establishing the Roman Catholic religion as the main dominant religion in Canada
B)establishing separate school systems for Roman Catholics and Protestants
C)establishing the Protestant religion as the main dominant religion in Canada
D)establishing a Roman Catholic-based constitution
Q6) What are the key characteristics of rural Canada today?
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Q1) GATT replaced the Foreign Investment Review Agency in 1984.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a means of combating the extent of U.S.ownership of Canadian industry?
A)P.Trudeau
B)B.Mulroney
C)J.Chretien
D)P.Martin
Q3) Which of the following is a criticism of foreign investment?
A)Less capital may leave the country than was initially invested.
B)Research and development occurs outside the parent plant.
C)It lowers the standard of living for Canadians.
D)It increases the number of jobs in sciences in Canada.
Q4) The Canada-U.S.Free Trade Agreement was not supposed to affect existing cultural programs.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What have been the results of the Free Trade agreement and NAFTA for Canada?
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Chapter 11: The Canadian Political Culture
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Q1) The principle of "one person, one vote" is a minimal expression of political equality.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which statement does NOT describe political freedom?
A)It is guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
B)It is a component of the definition of democracy.
C)It includes freedom of speech, press, and assembly.
D)It is rarely infringed on by provincial governments.
Q3) In traditional Canadian terms, popular sovereignty means frequent referenda.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are thought to be the distinguishing features between Canadian and U.S.values?
Q5) Three of the most significant cases involving a serious infringement of political freedom occurred at the federal level.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the concept of limited identities and their importance for Canadian political values.
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Chapter 12: Political socialization, the mass media, and Public opinion polls
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Q1) How is public opinion in Canada measured?
Q2) What is the preferred medium for political information?
A)radio
B)Internet
C)newspapers
D)television
Q3) How do individual corporations try to influence political attitudes and opinion?
A)through product advertising
B)through advocacy advertising
C)through new public management
D)through redistributive egalitarianism
Q4) How is the media involved in political agenda-setting?
Q5) The Harper government has been maintaining strict control over the flow of information and therefore, has been less accessible to reporters.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Francophones watch more drama on television than anything else.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Elections and the electoral system
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Q1) Manipulating constituency boundaries so as to ensure as far as possible the re-election of the members of the government party is known as glad-handing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Based on calculations, what is the projected total number of seats that will be available in the House of Commons after the 2015 elections?
A)308
B)318
C)328
D)338
Q3) What remedies to Canada's electoral system have been proposed to better reflect the distribution of the popular vote?
Q4) What are some of the similarities and differences in the discrepancies between seats and votes at the national and provincial levels?
Q5) What are the primary functions of an election in the Canadian political system?
Q6) Describe Canada's "first past the post" electoral system.What are the advantages and disadvantages of this system?
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Chapter 14: Political parties and the party system
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Q1) What is considered a part of the "extra-parliamentary party"?
A)the bureaucracy
B)senators
C)local and national party executives
D)pollsters
Q2) The "Parliamentary party" is made up of the party's members of Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Where in the ideological spectrum is the Liberal Party located?
A)left
B)centre
C)right
D)centre left
Q4) Discuss two of the following interpretations of party politics in Canada: the broker system, the concept of ideological or class-based parties, and one-party dominance.
Q5) Explain the ideological differences between conservatism, social democracy, and liberalism.
Q6) What were some of the issues and factors that moved Canada from a third to a fourth party system?
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Chapter 15: Parties, voting, and The election campaign
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Q1) One of the Liberal party's greatest campaign assets in 1993 was their "Red Book".
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Liberals would probably have won a majority in the 2004 election had it not been for the sponsorship scandal.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Younger voters in Quebec prefer the Bloc Quebecois than any other party.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why was Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party, not allowed to participate in the 2011 leaders debate?
A)because her party had no seats in the House of Commons before the election
B)because her party did not have the minimum required seats needed to establish itself as a national party
C)because her party was relatively new
D)because Elizabeth May did not hold a seat in the previous elections
Q5) Explain the sociodemographic bases of political party support in Canada.
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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) How does the federal structure of government affect the way in which pressure groups are organized?
Q3) 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
Q4) The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is more of a radical group than the National Farmer's Union.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are some of the differences and similarities between business and non-business interest groups?
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) How does a written constitution differ from an unwritten one?
Q2) The unwritten parts of the Canadian Constitution are referred to as oral interpretations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the 1982 British statute that officially terminated all British authority over Canada?
A)British North America Act, 1982
B)Statute of Westminster
C)Canada Act
D)Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Q4) 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
Q5) What concerns were raised regarding the Meech Lake Accord, 1982?
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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) During the period of executive federalism, political parties and the public were given large roles in the decision-making process.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) What form of federalism are federal-provincial and first ministers conferences an aspect of?
A)emergency federalism
B)executive federalism
C)quasi-federalism
D)classical federalism
Q4) How do federal-provincial relations affect the environment and Aboriginals in Canada?
Q5) 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) Which case concerns pornography?
A)R v.Butler
B)R v.Rodriguez
C)R v.Lavigne
D)R v.Oakes
Q2) What is the notwithstanding clause? Explain the controversy that surrounds this section of the charter.
Q3) Saskatchewan and Quebec have both applied the notwithstanding clause at some point.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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.
Q5) What are the arguments levied against an increased role of the courts in the political process?
Q6) How are language rights protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedom?
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Chapter 20: Governing: the policymaking process and policy instruments
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Q1) The government loses revenue because of tax credits and tax exemptions as in the example of RRSPs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In terms of government intervention, explain how the role of the state has evolved over the last 100 years.
Q3) 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
Q4) What term describes a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or interrelated set of problems?
A)public policy
B)policy instruments
C)symbolic response
D)regulation
Q5) What are stakeholders and what is their role in determining public policy?
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Chapter 21: The executive: crown, prime minister, and cabinet
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Q1) Canada is said to have a dual executive.What does this mean?
A)Symbolic powers are given to the Queen, but the effective executive consists of the prime minister and the Cabinet.
B)The functions of the executive are shared between the legislature and the Senate.
C)The functions of the executive are shared between the Cabinet and the prime minister.
D)The Queen and the prime minister and Cabinet govern together and equally.
Q2) What is an important principle of Cabinet operation?
A)collective responsibility
B)compulsory attendance
C)political equality
D)contribution to the budget
Q3) Differentiate between the different central agencies.How significant are their functions and roles in Canadian politics?
Q4) A Canadian constitutional convention requires that each province be represented in the Cabinet.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: The bureaucracy
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Q1) 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
Q2) VIA Rail, Canada Mortgage and Housing, and the Bank of Canada are examples of regulatory agencies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the Estimates?
A)the spending proposals of each government department and agency
B)Statistics Canada projections of the population growth
C)Statistics Canada projections of the unemployment rate
D)Bank of Canada predictions of the growth of the national debt
Q4) Every province except Nova Scotia has supplemented other means of controlling the bureaucracy with the appointment of an ombudsman.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the purpose of Crown corporations?
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Chapter 22: The bureaucracy
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Q1) Explain the relevance and significance of the Canadian senate.
Q2) What is NOT considered a principal function of the House of Commons?
A)legislative
B)representation
C)scrutiny
D)judiciary
Q3) The Senate has a veto over all legislation except money bills.
A)True
B)False
Q4) At which point of a weekly order of parliamentary business are MPs allowed to make a member statement regarding a specific event or issue?
A)15 minutes preceding Question period
B)15 minutes proceeding Question period
C)at the very beginning of the daily session
D)at the very end of the daily session
Q5) Legislative committees usually have an investigative function, to examine an issue before the government has made up its mind on how to deal with it.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The judiciary
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Q1) What are the powers of the Supreme Court of Canada?
Q2) Most aspects of criminal law in Canada are within provincial jurisdiction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT considered public law?
A)company law
B)constitutional law
C)administrative law
D)taxation law
Q4) What term describes the power of the courts to declare laws invalid?
A)habeas corpus
B)judicial review
C)stare decisis
D)judicial discretion
Q5) 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
Q6) What is the function of the judiciary?
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Q7) What are some of the issues and challenges that come with appointing judges?