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Mixed review · Rights and immigration

Ten questions of mixed difficulty, covering Collective rights, Immigration, the Charter. Print it, or work through it on screen — the answer key starts on its own page.

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Mixed review · Rights and immigration

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  1. How did the points system introduced in 1967 change how Canada chose immigrants?

    1. a) It ended the admission of refugees to Canada
    2. b) It let each province decide who could become a citizen
    3. c) It gave first priority to immigrants from Britain and the United States
    4. d) It scored applicants on skills and education, not race or nationality

  2. What does the Canada–Québec Accord (1991) allow Québec to do?

    1. a) Set the rules for deciding refugee claims across Canada
    2. b) Decide which immigrants living in Québec become citizens
    3. c) Choose its own economic immigrants and help them settle
    4. d) Refuse immigrants who were chosen by other provinces

  3. In which year did the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms become part of Canada's Constitution?

    1. a) 1867
    2. b) 1985
    3. c) 1960
    4. d) 1982

  4. A summary: "Québec's Charter of the French Language, Bill 101 (1977), made French the language of work, business and most schooling in Québec. Most children of newcomers must attend French-language schools." Which view would a supporter of Bill 101 most likely hold?

    1. a) Every parent should be free to choose the language of their child's school
    2. b) Only the federal government should pass laws about language
    3. c) French needs legal protection to survive in English-speaking North America
    4. d) Québec should make English its second official language

  5. The oath for new citizens now includes a promise to observe Canada's laws, "including the Constitution, which recognizes and affirms the Aboriginal and treaty rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples." What does this change most directly show?

    1. a) Canada now asks new citizens to respect Indigenous rights
    2. b) New citizens gain treaty rights when they take the oath
    3. c) First Nations must now approve each new Canadian citizen
    4. d) The oath no longer asks new citizens to obey Canada's laws

  6. A history note: "Treaty 7 was made in 1877 at Blackfoot Crossing with the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuut'ina and Stoney Nakoda. The year before, Parliament had passed the Indian Act without asking First Nations to agree." How does the Indian Act differ from Treaty 7?

    1. a) The Act was imposed; the treaty was a negotiated agreement
    2. b) Both were agreements signed by First Nations leaders
    3. c) The Act was negotiated; the treaty was imposed by Canada
    4. d) The treaty replaced the Act for the nations that signed it

  7. A nurse who trained and worked in Nova Scotia moves to Red Deer and takes a job at the hospital there. Which Charter right protects her ability to do this?

    1. a) Equality rights (section 15)
    2. b) Mobility rights (section 6)
    3. c) Language rights (section 16)
    4. d) Legal rights (section 7)

  8. A provincial news release: "Newcomers who land in Calgary or Edmonton rarely move to small towns. The province will now nominate immigrants who have job offers in rural communities." Which problem is the province mainly trying to solve?

    1. a) Newcomers settling in cities while rural jobs go unfilled
    2. b) Québec choosing immigrants who would otherwise go to Alberta
    3. c) Too many refugees arriving in small towns all at once
    4. d) A lack of French-language services in rural areas

  9. A workplace notice: "We have installed a ramp and changed Dana's shift times so she can keep working here after her spinal injury." Which idea does this show?

    1. a) The right of workers to form and join a labour union
    2. b) Mobility rights for workers who move provinces
    3. c) Affirmative action in hiring new employees
    4. d) The duty to accommodate a worker with a disability

  10. A history note: "Until 1985, a First Nations woman with status who married a man without status lost her status under the Indian Act. A First Nations man who married a woman without status kept his, and his wife gained status." Which Charter right did this rule most clearly conflict with?

    1. a) Legal rights (section 7)
    2. b) Freedom of association (section 2)
    3. c) Mobility rights (section 6)
    4. d) Equality rights (section 15)

Answer key · Mixed review · Rights and immigration

Social Studies 9 · maddyhelps.com

  1. d) It scored applicants on skills and education, not race or nationality — Before the 1960s, policy openly favoured immigrants from Britain, the United States and parts of Europe; the points system scored everyone on the same criteria, such as education, language and job skills. Priority for Britain is what the points system replaced, not what it introduced.
  2. c) Choose its own economic immigrants and help them settle — Québec selects its own economic immigrants, giving weight to French, and runs its own settlement and French-language services with federal funding. Ottawa still grants citizenship and decides refugee claims made in Canada.
  3. d) 1982 — The Charter is part of the Constitution Act, 1982. The 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights came earlier but was an ordinary federal law that courts rarely used, and 1985 is when the equality rights in section 15 took effect, three years after the rest of the Charter.
  4. c) French needs legal protection to survive in English-speaking North America — Supporters argue that francophones are a small minority on an English-speaking continent, so without laws French would lose ground at work and in school. Free parental choice is the position of Bill 101's critics, who see it as limiting individual rights for the sake of a collective one.
  5. a) Canada now asks new citizens to respect Indigenous rights — The oath was changed in response to a Call to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, so newcomers learn that Aboriginal and treaty rights are part of the country they are joining. Promising to respect those rights does not give new citizens treaty rights, which belong to the First Nations who made the treaties.
  6. a) The Act was imposed; the treaty was a negotiated agreement — A treaty is an agreement between nations, however much its meaning is disputed; the Indian Act is a law Parliament passed on its own. Both are still in force, the Act in amended form, so signing Treaty 7 did not free those nations from the Act.
  7. b) Mobility rights (section 6) — Section 6 lets citizens and permanent residents move to any province and earn a living there. Alberta can still require her to register with its nursing regulator, because the right is subject to rules that apply to everyone in the province.
  8. a) Newcomers settling in cities while rural jobs go unfilled — Provincial nominee programs let a province choose economic immigrants to fill its own labour needs, and this one targets jobs outside the big cities. Nothing in the release mentions refugees, Québec or language; the problem is where newcomers settle.
  9. d) The duty to accommodate a worker with a disability — Human rights law requires employers to accommodate a disability up to the point of undue hardship, and disability is also a ground listed in the Charter's section 15. Affirmative action is about who gets hired, and Dana already has the job.
  10. d) Equality rights (section 15) — The rule treated women and men differently because of sex, a ground listed in section 15, and Parliament amended the Indian Act in 1985, the year section 15 took effect. Freedom of association is tempting because marriage is involved, but the problem was unequal treatment, not a ban on marrying.