Deck 10: Canada’S external environment: the united states and the world

Question 1

Canadian Anglophones spend about 72 percent of their television viewing time watching local programs

Answer 1

False
They spend 72 percent of their television viewing time watching foreign programs.

Question 2

The Canada-U.S.Free Trade Agreement was not supposed to affect existing cultural programs.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The principle government response to the Gray Report was the creation of The National Energy Board

Answer 3

False
The principle government response to the Gray Report was the creation of the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA).

Question 4

Chapter 21 is the clause in the NAFTA treaty that allows a foreign company to sue a country on the ground that government policies reduced its profits.

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of globalization?

A)comprehensive free trade agreements
B)mega-mergers of large transnational corporations
C)removal of state controls on corporate behaviour
D)decreasing the mobility of capital

Question 6

GATT replaced the Foreign Investment Review Agency in 1984.

Question 7

An act or threat of violence perpetrated by an ideological group that is intended to produce fear or change is called terrorism.

Question 8

What percentage of acid rain falling north of the Canada-U.S.border is caused by U.S.sources?

A)10
B)25
C)50
D)90

Question 9

U.S.branch plants first proliferated in Canada following the introduction of the Canada-U.S.Free Trade Agreement.

Question 10

What was the previous department name of Public Safety Canada?

A)Department of Public Works
B)Department of Public Security and Emergency Preparedness
C)Canada Border Service Agency
D)Department of National Security

Question 11

What is the dispute-settlement mechanism?

A)a provision of the Canada-U.S.Free Trade Agreement to settle trade disputes
B)a provision of the Parliament of Canada Act to settle disputes between the House of Commons and the Senate
C)a provision of the Canadian Constitution to settle federal-provincial disputes
D)a provision of the UN Charter to settle disputes among nation states

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT a means of combating the extent of U.S.ownership of Canadian industry?

A)P.Trudeau
B)B.Mulroney
C)J.Chretien
D)P.Martin

Question 13

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is a Crown corporation

Question 14

Which of the following is a Crown corporation?

A)National Energy Program
B)Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
C)Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
D)Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Question 15

The Canadian Auto Workers union was originally part of the United Auto Workers Union.

Question 16

Which of the following International Organizations ordered Canada to discontinue a federal excise tax and postal subsidies following a complaint by the American government?

A)World Trade Organization
B)International Monetary Fund
C)G8
D)G20

Question 17

Which of the following strongly supported the Free Trade Agreement?

A)organized labour
B)western resource industries
C)the federal Liberal party
D)nationalist groups

Question 18

By 2011, Canada exported the most to the United States.

Question 19

Which of the following is a criticism of foreign investment?

A)Less capital may leave the country than was initially invested.
B)Research and development occurs outside the parent plant.
C)It lowers the standard of living for Canadians.
D)It increases the number of jobs in sciences in Canada.

Question 20

Which Prime Minister entirely dismantled the National Energy Policy?

A)P.Trudeau
B)B.Mulroney
C)J.Chretien
D)P.Martin

Question 21

What have been the results of the Free Trade agreement and NAFTA for Canada?

Question 22

What are some of the benefits for Canada to establish a free trade agreement with the US?

Question 23

Name five of the principle characteristics of globalization.

Question 24

How has the United States influenced Canada, in terms of economic and cultural influences?

Question 25

How have international terrorism events, such as 9/11, affected Canadian domestic and foreign policy?