Related Issues 1 and 4

Question 1

Civic

Answer 1

relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal.

Question 2

Nation

Answer 2

the body of people and shared identity that makes up a nation-state, or country

Question 3

Nationalism

Answer 3

identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

Question 4

Civic Nationalism

Answer 4

a form of nationalism identified by political philosophers who believe in an inclusive form of nationalism that adheres to traditional liberal values of freedom, tolerance, equality, individual rights.

Question 5

Ethnic

Answer 5

relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition.

Question 6

Ethnic Nationalism

Answer 6

a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric approach to various political issues related to the national affirmation of a particular ethnic group.

Question 7

First Nations

Answer 7

any of the groups of indigenous peoples of Canada officially recognized as an administrative unit by the federal government or functioning as such without official status. The term is generally understood to exclude the Inuit and Metis.

Question 8

Identity

Answer 8

the fact of being who a person is
- Includes things such as race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical attributes, personality, political affiliations, religious beliefs, professional identities, and so on.

Question 9

Inuit

Answer 9

a member of an indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska.

Question 10

Linguistic Identity

Answer 10

a person’s identification as a speaker of one or more languages.

Question 11

Federalism

Answer 11

a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.

Question 12

Responsible Government

Answer 12

a government that is accountable to the people

Question 13

Contending Loyalties

Answer 13

Contending Loyalties are loyalties that compete

Question 14

Multinational state

Answer 14

a sovereign entity that comprises two or more nations or states.

Question 15

Nation

Answer 15

a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

Question 16

Nation-state

Answer 16

A country with a political structure

Question 17

Nationalism

Answer 17

identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

Question 18

Non-nationalist loyalty

Answer 18

loyalty which does not involve nation.

Question 19

Patriotism

Answer 19

the quality of being patriotic; devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country.

Question 20

Pluralism

Answer 20

a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.

Question 21

Quebecois

Answer 21

a native or inhabitant of Quebec, typically one who is French Canadian.

Question 22

Multiculturalism

Answer 22

the presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

Question 23

Sovereignty

Answer 23

supreme power or authority.

Question 24

Self-determination

Answer 24

the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.

Question 25

Social class

Answer 25

a division of a society based on social and economic status.

Question 26

Sovereign country

Answer 26

A sovereign nation is a nation that has one centralized government that has the power to govern a specific geographic area.

Question 27

Alienation

Answer 27

the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved.

Question 28

Cultural Assimilation

Answer 28

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society’s majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

Question 29

Bilingualism

Answer 29

fluency in or use of two languages.

Question 30

Civil disobedience

Answer 30

the refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition; its usual purpose is to force concessions from the government or occupying power.

Question 31

Confederation

Answer 31

an alliance or a group of people or nations with shared goals

Question 32

Distinct Society

Answer 32

the uniqueness of the province of Quebec within Canada

Question 33

Referendum

Answer 33

a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.

Question 34

National myth

Answer 34

A national myth is an inspiring narrative or anecdote about a nation’s past.

Question 35

Collective consciousness

Answer 35

Collective consciousness is the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society.