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Vocabulary For The PAT Flashcards

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Accountable

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Answerable to someone for your actions

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Affirm

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To validate and express commitment to something

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Anglophone

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A person whose first language is English

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Annuity

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An annual payment

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Assimilate

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Become part of a different cultural group

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Assimilation

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The process of becoming part of a DIFFERENT cultural group

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Autonomy

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Authority to make decisions

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Bias

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An opinion based on unchallenged assumptions (your opinion)

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Biodiversity

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The number and variety of plant and animal species on earth, including genetic variation with individual species

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Black market

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Another word for underground economy

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Boycott

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A decision by consumer to stop buying something as a way to being change to it

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Civil Servants

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The people who serve Canadians as employees of the government

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Climate Change

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A rise in the average temperature of earth, primarily caused by emissions from burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas

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Collective bargaining

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Negotiating as a group- this is the key right established by unions for workers

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Collective identify

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The shared identity of a group of people, especially because of a common language and culture

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Collective rights

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Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical and constitutional reasons.We didn’t treat them right in the past.(Aboriginal peoples, first nations, métis, Inuit, francophones and anglophones

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Colonialism

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The process of establishing colonies in which a region is claimed and governed by a country from another part of the world

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Community service

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Help in the community performed as part of a sentence, such as assisting with the community clean up of food bank

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Competition

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In Economy, rivalry among producers to sell product to consumers

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Constituent

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Someone who lives in a riding and is represented by an elected official from that riding

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Constitution

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A special set of laws that establish a framework of governance

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Consumerism

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An economic theory that links prosperity to consumer demand for goods and services, and that makes consumer behaviour central to economic decision making

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Consumers

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Those who use products and services

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Criminal record

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A permanent record of breaking the law, which is public information. A criminal record can prevent you from some jobs, volunteer positions and the ability to travel to other countries

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Criteria

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Standards for evaluating something

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Demand

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The wants and needs of consumers for products and services

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Demand

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The wants and needs of consumer for products and services

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Demographic

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To do with characteristics of populations

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Economic system

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How a society organizes the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

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Economics

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The study of the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

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Economy

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The resources and process involved in the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

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Entrenching

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Fixing firmly within

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Ethnocentrisim

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The belief that ones culture is superior to all other cultures

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Executive Branch

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The part of government responsible for putting laws into action

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Fair and equitable

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Governed by rules that apply to everyone, taking into account individual needs and circumstances

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First Nations

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The umbrella name for the diverse aboriginal peoples who have collective rights that are recognized and protected in Canada’s constitution. The constitution refers to First Nations as “Indians” in keeping with the name used at the time of negotiating treaties

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Francophone

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A person whose first language is French

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GDP per capita

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A measure of how well off the people of a country are

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Goods and Service Tax (GST)

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A federal sales tax in Canada

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Govern

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To make decisions as a government and put decision into action

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Governance

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The process of governing

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Government

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The body with the power to make decisions for a society

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Health Insurance

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An agreement by a company to pay for your health services, in exchange for a fee that you pay each month/year

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Immigration

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The process of people establishing homes, and often citizenship, in a country that is not there native country

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Income tax

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Tax based on a percentage of a person’a income

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Indian Act

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Federal legislation related to the rights and status of First Nations peoples (“ status Indians”), first passed in 1876 and amended several times

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Indian

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Europeans used the word “Indian” to describe the First Nations of North America, although these peoples were diverse and had names for themeselves, Many First Nations prefer not to use the word “Indian” to describe themeselves

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Inherent rights

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Rights with origins in fundamental justice

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Issue

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A topic that connects to citizenship, identity and quality of life, and on which well-informed people have different views and perspectives

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Judicial Branch

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The part of government that interprets and applied the law by making legal judgements

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Justice system

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The institutions and procedures for applying laws in a society

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Justice

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Applying laws

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Labour force growth

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The growth of the “labour force”, or the number of people who can work

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Labour union

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An organization of workers that acts to protect workers rights and interests

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Legislation

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Laws created through the legislative process

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Legislative branch

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The part of government that makes laws

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Lever

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In the context of society, a means of accomplishing something; a way to apply pressure

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Median

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A concept in statistics that means the middle number in a set of data organizes in order of least to most

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Minorities

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Groups in society who do not form the majority of the population

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Official language community

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One of the groups in Canadian society hose members speak an official language of Canada-French or English -as their first language

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Accord

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A formal agreement

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Opinion

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Personal reaction to an issue

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Patriate

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To bring to a country something that belongs to the country

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Perspective

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Values and ideas shared by people with a common language, cuter and history

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Point of view

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Opinions and preferences of an individual based on personal experiences

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Political system

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The structure of government

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Popular vote

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The total votes cast in an election, as different from the total seats won in an election

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Private health care

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Health care paid for by individuals

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Privately owned

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Ok economics, the part of the economy owned and controlled by businesses and individuals

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Producers

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Those who create products and services

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Profit

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Money made from a product or service above and beyond the cost of providing the product or service

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Public good

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What’s best for society as a whole

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Public health care

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Health care paid for by taxes

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Publicly funded

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Paid for by taxes and provided by government

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Publicly owned

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In economics, the part of the economy owned and controlled by governed and paid for by taxes

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Quality of life

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A measure of personal and collective well being

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Refugee

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A person who seeks refuge in another country because of danger or persecution in his or her home

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Rehabilitate

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To in still positive behaviours and attitudes

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Reserve

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Land for the exclusive use of First Nations

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Rights

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What individuals and groups are allowed to do in society, as established in law

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Sales tax

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Tax paid at the time of buying a product or service, and based on a percentage of the price if the product or service

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Scarcity

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In economics, the idea that land (materials), labour and capital (money) limit the supply of what people want and need

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Scrip

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In Métis history, a document that could be exchanged for land and that was offered to the Métis at the time the numbered treaties were negotiated

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Sentence

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A consequence for a crime, such as imprisonment, determined by a court of law

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Shift left

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A shift on the e

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