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Mixed review · Internationalism and Canada

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Mixed review · Internationalism and Canada

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  1. Canada's historic reputation for peacekeeping dates largely from

    1. a) the Korean War
    2. b) Canada's role in the Second World War
    3. c) Lester Pearson's proposal during the 1956 Suez Crisis
    4. d) the founding of NATO in 1949

  2. The Meech Lake Accord failed in 1990 largely because

    1. a) it could not obtain the unanimous provincial approval it required
    2. b) Quebec rejected it in a referendum
    3. c) the courts ruled it unconstitutional
    4. d) the federal government withdrew it

  3. Bill 101, the Charter of the French Language, was passed in 1977 to

    1. a) make Quebec officially bilingual
    2. b) make French the common public language of Quebec
    3. c) remove French from Quebec schools
    4. d) ban the use of English in private homes

  4. The Responsibility to Protect holds that

    1. a) sovereignty carries a duty to protect one's population, and the world may act if a state fails
    2. b) states may never intervene in another state
    3. c) the UN must approve every war
    4. d) every state must accept refugees

  5. Internationalism is

    1. a) the pursuit of one nation's interest abroad
    2. b) the same thing as globalization
    3. c) the rejection of all national identity
    4. d) cooperation among states for common benefit

  6. A country that signs an international climate agreement gives up some sovereignty because it

    1. a) accepts limits on its own domestic policy in exchange for others doing the same
    2. b) hands its territory to another state
    3. c) loses its seat at the United Nations
    4. d) gives up control of its military

  7. Residential schools were intended to

    1. a) teach Indigenous languages
    2. b) prepare students for university
    3. c) provide the same education as other Canadian schools
    4. d) assimilate Indigenous children by separating them from their families, languages and cultures

  8. The Quiet Revolution of the 1960s in Quebec involved

    1. a) an armed uprising against the federal government
    2. b) rapid secularization and a much larger role for the provincial state
    3. c) the end of the French language in Quebec
    4. d) Quebec's separation from Canada

  9. An argument that foreign aid serves the national interest of the donor is that

    1. a) aid guarantees votes at the United Nations
    2. b) aid is required by international law
    3. c) aid always increases the donor's territory
    4. d) stable, prosperous partners make better trading partners and produce fewer crises

  10. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was adopted in

    1. a) 1969
    2. b) 1949
    3. c) 1982
    4. d) 1867

Answer key · Mixed review · Internationalism and Canada

Social Studies 20-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. c) Lester Pearson's proposal during the 1956 Suez Crisis — Pearson proposed a UN Emergency Force to separate the combatants, and it won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. Peacekeeping was essentially invented in that crisis and became central to how Canada saw itself.
  2. a) it could not obtain the unanimous provincial approval it required — Manitoba and Newfoundland did not ratify in time, with Elijah Harper's stand in the Manitoba legislature drawing attention to the exclusion of Indigenous peoples from the negotiations. Its failure fed directly into the 1995 referendum.
  3. b) make French the common public language of Quebec — It governs the language of work, commerce, signage and schooling. Defenders see it as the minimum needed for a French-speaking society in an English-speaking continent; critics see it as a limit on individual choice.
  4. a) sovereignty carries a duty to protect one's population, and the world may act if a state fails — Adopted by the UN in 2005, R2P reframes sovereignty as responsibility rather than immunity. Applying it consistently has proved far harder than agreeing to it.
  5. d) cooperation among states for common benefit — Internationalism does not require giving up nationhood — it assumes nations exist and chooses to cooperate. Globalization is the increasing interconnection of economies and cultures, which is a process rather than a policy.
  6. a) accepts limits on its own domestic policy in exchange for others doing the same — Every binding agreement narrows future choices. The internationalist argument is that the collective gain is worth it; the nationalist objection is that the constraint is real and the benefit uncertain.
  7. d) assimilate Indigenous children by separating them from their families, languages and cultures — The Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded in 2015 that the system amounted to cultural genocide. Understanding the intent is what makes the lasting harm intelligible.
  8. b) rapid secularization and a much larger role for the provincial state — The Church's role in education and health passed to the province, Hydro-Québec was nationalized, and a modern francophone middle class emerged. It transformed Quebec nationalism from defensive to assertive.
  9. d) stable, prosperous partners make better trading partners and produce fewer crises — Aid is defended both on humanitarian grounds and on self-interested ones, and a good answer in this course recognises that motives are usually mixed rather than picking one.
  10. c) 1982 — It came with the patriation of the Constitution in 1982. Quebec's government did not sign, which set up the Meech Lake and Charlottetown attempts to bring it in later.