Unit 1 - Chapter 3

Question 1

Loyalty

Answer 1

a devotion to a country, philosophy, group, or person.

Question 2

Nationalist loyalty

Answer 2

Loyalties that involve the idea of nation

Question 3

Contending loyalties

Answer 3

loyalties that compete; people sometimes need to choose among various loyalties bases on their commitment to those loyalties.

Question 4

Cultural pleuralism

Answer 4

when smaller groups within a larger society can keep their unique cultural identities, and their values and practices are accepted by the dominant culture, only if they fall within the laws and values of the larger society.

Question 5

Multiculturalism

Answer 5

he view that cultures, races, and ethnicities, particularly those of minority groups, deserve special acknowledgment of their differences within a dominant political culture.

Question 6

Reasonable accomodation

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Sovereigntists

Answer 7

were people who supported Quebec becoming an independent nation-state

Question 8

Federalists

Answer 8

people who supported Quebec remaining in Canada, and maintaining a strong united country including Quebec.

Question 9

Reconciliation

Answer 9

An act of resolving difference and repairing relationships.

Question 10

Land claim

Answer 10

modern-day treaties made between Indigenous peoples and the federal government

Question 11

How have contending loyalties caused conflict in Quebec (separatism) and Alberta (NEP)?

Answer 11

In Quebec, residents had a a referendum to determine if the province should leave Canada. In Alberta, Pierre Trudeau created the National Energy Program (NEP) to try to balance the wealth from oil and gas between east and western Canada. But Alberta’s Priemier Mr Lougheed thought it was unfair because it took jobs from Albertan’s and they lost houses and income. Eventually in 1981 Trudeau and Lougheed came to an agreement that gave more control over the oil and gas prices and revune to Alberta.

Question 12

Why have First Nations become more involved in politics after the 1970’s?

Answer 12

So they could form organisations to fight for recognition of their land rights and more control over the terms of their lives. They weren’t allowed to be involved in pollitics prior to 1970’s so they had no say in how they were governed.