Deck 13: Canadas Unique Psychosocial Realities

Question 1

Through research, expand your knowledge of some of the psychosocial realities of a group of Canadians not mentioned in the chapter, who have descendants in your community or who have recently relocated from another country to live in your community.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Read an account of life in a residential school and write an essay describing significant learning you gained through the exercise.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Summarize critiques that have been written of Canada's Multicultural Policy that appeared in 1971.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

What are some of the groups of people who were not welcomed into Canada during the first half of the twentieth century? What were their countries of origin? Provide some historical context to this form of systemic discrimination.

Question 5

Explore the meaning and the importance of self-determination for Aboriginal people.

Question 6

As the demographic portrait in Canada continues to change, what are some implications for social workers?

Question 7

In what ways was the residential school experience devastating for Aboriginal communities and families?

Question 8

Discuss where support for bilingualism in Canada is most likely to be found.

Question 9

According to the study conducted by the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency in 2005, what were the two most likely factors that contributed to the creation of barriers to employment experienced by people who are members of a visible minority group?

Question 10

What pieces of legislation and agreements appeared in the 1980s and 1990s that were of significance to the province of Quebec? Why were they significant?

Question 11

Canada is often described as a multicultural mosaic that is…

A) strengthened through assimilation enforced by legislation
B) founded on tolerance and reinforced by legislation
C) strengthened through tolerance and enforced by integration
D) transformed into a "melting pot"

Question 12

Canadians have always been a people on the move to, within, and beyond the nation in search of:

A) safety, employment, and advancement
B) safety, agricultural land and advancement
C) education, safety and employment
D) education, employment, and possessions

Question 13

According to Canadian Heritage, Canada was the first country in the world to:

A) Adopt a national Linguistic Respect act
B) Adopt an Official Languages policy
C) Adopt a National Charter of Rights and Freedoms
D) Adopt an official Multicultural Policy

Question 14

Which country is the only one to have a higher percentage of residents born outside the country, compared to Canada's 18.4 percent of the total population being born elsewhere?

A) Australia
B) United States
C) Norway
D) Japan

Question 15

What proportion of people identified themselves as Canadian in the 2001 Census?

A) 9%
B) 19%
C) 29%
D) 39%

Question 16

Which four provinces were part of Canada when its first Constitution Act was passed in 1867?

A) Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
B) Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia
C) Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick
D) Quebec, New Brunswick Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Question 17

During which historical meeting during the 1980s did Quebec's government attempt to seek special constitutional recognition?

A) Charlottetown Accord
B) Meech Lake Accord
C) Montreal Accord
D) Quebec Accord

Question 18

During which historical meeting during the 1990s was the right of Aboriginal peoples to self-government recognized?

A) Charlottetown Accord
B) Meech Lake Accord
C) Montreal Accord
D) Quebec Accord

Question 19

The name of the institutions in which Aboriginal children were placed after being forcibly separated from their families and communities, beginning in 1874, is:

A) Boarding schools
B) Children's asylums
C) Residential schools
D) Boarding homes

Question 20

An agreement signed in 1991 between Canada and which province gave that province the sole right to select its own independent immigrants and refugees for settlement in it?

A) British Columbia
B) Alberta
C) Ontario
D) Quebec

Question 21

In a recent public opinion survey, Aboriginal issues were identified as one of the top three priorities for government, along with health care and education.

Question 22

In a referendum held May 20^th, 1980, following a pledge from the prime minister that the government would immediately take action to renew the Constitution if Quebeckers voted no, the people of Quebec voted no to the creation of a "sovereignty-association".

Question 23

The Anglophone majority across Canada is less likely to support putting more government resources into the promotion of bilingualism than is the francophone minority.

Question 24

The mass migrational push of people from Great Britain during the 1880s was largely comprised of individuals and families selected from the upper echelon of British society.

Question 25

According to the 2001 Census, Canada's population originates from up to 100 different ethnic groups including North American First Nations, Métis, Inuit, French, British, Scottish, and Irish.

Question 26

Social workers need to be aware of the chronology of "push and pull factors" that may have contributed to their client's current position and vulnerability.

Question 27

The authors believe that "otherness" should be resisted and efforts should be made to try to fit it into something that already exists.

Question 28

Social workers should strive and expect to become ethno-culturally aware and competent across the spectrum of Canadian human diversity.

Question 29

Approximately 100,000 children went through the residential school system, according to Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada, 2004.

Question 30

The exercise of government power over the education of Aboriginal people can be interpreted as an attempt to erode or destroy Aboriginal sovereignty, culture, tradition, value, and language with the ultimate goal of assimilating Aboriginal people into mainstream Canada.