What is the main role of the Judicial Branch?

Making laws
Administering justice
Deciding budgets
Representing Canada abroad

What did the Huron-Wendat and Iroquois do for survival?

Both farming and hunting
Both herding animals and trading
Both fishing and trading
Raising crops only

Which treaty helped open up the world's restrictive trading policies during the Depression era?

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
European Union (EU)
United Nations (UN)

Following the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Great Britain renamed the French colony:

Province of Ontario
Province of Canada
Province of Montreal
Province of Quebec

What are the three levels of the Executive Branch?

Governor General, House of Commons, Senate
Prime Minister, Senate, MPs
Governor General, cabinet, administration
Cabinet, Senate, judiciary

When are federal elections held in Canada?

Every six years in July
Every five years on the first Monday in May
Every three years in December
Every four years on the third Monday in October

Which provinces produce more than three-quarters of Canadian manufactured goods?

Ontario and Quebec
Alberta and British Columbia
Manitoba and Saskatchewan
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

What does the principle of "due process" mean?

The government can ignore certain legal rights if necessary.
The government must respect all legal rights that a person is entitled to under the law.
Legal rights are optional in criminal cases.
Only certain individuals are entitled to legal rights.

After Paris, which is the second largest mainly French-speaking city in the world?

Lyon
Brussels
Montreal
Geneva

Who considers and reviews proposals for new laws?

The Governor General
The Prime Minister alone
The Supreme Court
Both the House of Commons and the Senate

Whose face appeared on Canada’s $1 bill in 1923?

Queen Victoria
King George V
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

What must happen for a bill to become law in Canada?

It must be passed by the House of Commons and signed by the Prime Minister.
It must be passed by both the House of Commons and the Senate and receive royal assent from the Governor General on behalf of the Sovereign.
It must be passed by the Senate and approved by the Supreme Court.
It must be passed by both the House of Commons and the Senate and then voted on by the citizens.

Which city is called the "Diamond Capital of North America"?

Edmonton
Yellowknife
Vancouver
Calgary

What is the second most-spoken language at home in Vancouver and Toronto?

French
Spanish
Chinese
Punjabi

Which is Canada's second largest city?

Vancouver
Montreal
Toronto
Calgary

Which is Canada’s national winter sport?

Lacrosse
Skiing
Hockey
Curling

Who worked to secure the right to vote for women in Quebec in 1940?

Thérèse Casgrain
Emily Murphy
Nellie McClung
Agnes Macphail

What event in 1929 led to the Great Depression, also known as the "Dirty Thirties"?

World War I
The stock market crash
The invention of the automobile
The Roaring Twenties

How do electors receive their voter information card from Elections Canada?

By email
By mail
By picking it up at a polling station
By downloading it online

Who donated the Stanley Cup?

Lord Stanley
Queen Victoria
Sir John A. Macdonald
Winston Churchill

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