Unit 1 Ch. 3-4

Question 1

Contending loyalties

Answer 1

loyalties that compete. People sometimes need to choose among various loyalties based on their commitment to those loyalties.

Question 2

Cultural pluralism

Answer 2

a belief or doctrine that holds that collectives should be encouraged to affirm and promote their unique cultural identity in a diverse society.

Question 3

Reasonable accomodation

Answer 3

a legal and constitutional concept that requires Canadian public institutions to adapt to the religious and cultural practices of minorities as long as those practices do not violate constitutional rights and freedoms.

Question 4

Sovereignists

Answer 4

Those who support the idea of self governance.

Question 5

Federalists

Answer 5

people who support a federal system of government

Question 6

Reconciliation

Answer 6

an act of resolving differences and repairing relationships that enables people to come to terms with past injustices and coexist in peace.

Question 7

Royal commision

Answer 7

an independent public inquiry established by governments to examine complicated issues, hear testimony from people involved, and recommend ways of achieving a solution

Question 8

Non-nationalist loyalty

Answer 8

a loyalty that is not embedded in the idea of a nation. People may be loyal to and identify with family, friends, a region, an idea, a collective or a group, a way of life, and a culture.

Question 9

Alienation

Answer 9

the experience of feeling left out or being on the outside. People who choose one strong loyalty over another risk alienation from an important part of their identity and from sharing in the collective consciousness of the group.

Question 10

1995 referendum

Answer 10

Quebecer’s were asked to choose between two loyalties. Quebec or Canada. Canada won (not by much), but this shows their (in the past, of course) stand point on Quebec separation and how contending loyalties may not always work in favour of the Nation-State.

Question 11

Oka crisis

Answer 11

a group of first nations, near Oka, set up a roadlock and a camp in nearby woods. Their goal was to stop the expansion of a golf course onto land that they claimed as their own and considered sacred.

Question 12

Royal commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Answer 12

an independent public inquiry established to examine the issue facing Native’s in Quebec through testimonies as a way to resolve their relationship. The report urged Canadians to view first nations, Inuit, and Metis in a radically new way-as a nations with the right to govern themselves in partnership with Canada.

Question 13

The White paper

Answer 13

a proposal that sought to abolish everything that made first nations peoples distinct.

Question 14

Red paper

Answer 14

It countered everything the white paper proposed.

Question 15

Can nationalist and non-nationalist loyalties always be distinguished?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

Comprehensive land claim

Answer 16

deal with the unfinished business of treaty-making in Canada. These claims arise in areas of Canada where Aboriginal land rights have not been dealt with in the past.

Question 17

Specific land claims

Answer 17

deals with past grievances of First Nations related to Canada’s obligations under historic treaties or the way it managed first nations funds or other assets.

Question 18

Study visions of canada! Ok?

Answer 18

ok.