Canadian Citizenship
Comprehensive Questions
with Verified Answers
Graded A+
1. What/who is the oath professed to? Answer: The Monarch. Not a document (e.g.
constitution), a banner (e.g. flag), or a geopolitical entity (e.g. country).
2. What is the Magna Carta also known as? Answer: The Great Charter of Freedoms
(created in 1215)
3. What does the Magna Carta include? Answer: Freedom of conscience and religion; of
thought, belief,
opinion and expression, including of speech and of the press; of peaceful assembly; and of associatio
4. What is the Habeas corpus? Answer: The right to challenge unlawful detention by the
state. It comes from English common law.
5. When was the Constitution of Canada amended? Answer: 1982
6. What does the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms include? Answe
Mobility Rights,
Aboriginal Peoples' Rights, Oflcial Language Rights and Minority Language Educational Rights, and
,Multiculturalism. It also attempts to summarize fundamental freedoms.
7. What are the Mobility Rights? Answer: Canadians can live and work anywhere they choos
in Canada, enter
and leave the country freely, and apply for a passport.
8. What are the Aboriginal Peoples' Rights? Answer: The rights guaranteed in the Charter
will not adversely attect any treaty or other rights or freedoms of Aboriginal peoples.
9. What are the Official Language Rights and Minority Language
Educational Rights? Answer: French and English have equal status in Parliament and
throughout the government.
10. What is Multiculturalism (with respect to the charter)? Answer:
fundamental characteristic of
the Canadian heritage and identity. Canadians celebrate the gift of one another's presence and work hard
respect pluralism and live in harmony.
11. What are the Citizenship Responsibilities? Answer: Obeying the law, Taking
responsibility for oneself
and one's family, Serving on a jury, Voting in elections, helping others in the community, protecting and
enjoying our heritage and environment.
12. What is the name of Canada's original constitutional document? Answe
The British North
America Act. It is also known as the Constitution Act.
13. When was the British North America Act created? Answer: July
1867.
14. What is the key phrase in Canada's original constitutional document
in 1867 (the British North America Act)? Answer: Peace, Order and Good Government. The
,act oflciated the Dominion of Canada.
15. What is Canada's three founding peoples? Answer: Aboriginal, French an
British
, 16. When were Territorial rights first guaranteed? Answer: 1763 in the Royal
Proclamation by King George III. Unfortunately, treaties that were not always fully respected.
17. During what time period did the federal government place many
Aboriginal children in residential schools to educate and assimilate them
into mainstream Canadian culture? Answer: From the 1800s until the 1980s
18. When did the federal government formally apologize to the former
(Aborig- inal) students? Answer: 2008
19. What are the three distinct groups referred to by the term
Aboriginal peo- ples? Answer: First Nations (formerly Indian), Inuit, and Metis.
20. Who are the Inuit? Answer: The Inuit, which means "the people" in the Inuktitut
language, live in small, scattered
communities across the Arctic.
21. Who are the Metis? Answer: The Metis are a distinct people of mixed Aboriginal and
European ancestry, the majority of whom live in the Prairie provinces. They come from both French-
and English-speaking backgrounds and speak their own dialect, Michif.
22. What is the approximate geographic distribution of the First Nations
peo- ple? Answer: About half live on reserve land in about 600 communities while the other half live
ott-reserve, mainly in urban centres.
23. What is the approximate population distribution of the Aboriginal
people? Answer: -
About 65% are First Nations, while 30% are Metis, and 4% are Inuit.
24. Who was John Buchan? Answer: A popular Governor General of Canada (1935-40
25. Approximately how many Francophones are there in Canada? Answer: 7
Comprehensive Questions
with Verified Answers
Graded A+
1. What/who is the oath professed to? Answer: The Monarch. Not a document (e.g.
constitution), a banner (e.g. flag), or a geopolitical entity (e.g. country).
2. What is the Magna Carta also known as? Answer: The Great Charter of Freedoms
(created in 1215)
3. What does the Magna Carta include? Answer: Freedom of conscience and religion; of
thought, belief,
opinion and expression, including of speech and of the press; of peaceful assembly; and of associatio
4. What is the Habeas corpus? Answer: The right to challenge unlawful detention by the
state. It comes from English common law.
5. When was the Constitution of Canada amended? Answer: 1982
6. What does the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms include? Answe
Mobility Rights,
Aboriginal Peoples' Rights, Oflcial Language Rights and Minority Language Educational Rights, and
,Multiculturalism. It also attempts to summarize fundamental freedoms.
7. What are the Mobility Rights? Answer: Canadians can live and work anywhere they choos
in Canada, enter
and leave the country freely, and apply for a passport.
8. What are the Aboriginal Peoples' Rights? Answer: The rights guaranteed in the Charter
will not adversely attect any treaty or other rights or freedoms of Aboriginal peoples.
9. What are the Official Language Rights and Minority Language
Educational Rights? Answer: French and English have equal status in Parliament and
throughout the government.
10. What is Multiculturalism (with respect to the charter)? Answer:
fundamental characteristic of
the Canadian heritage and identity. Canadians celebrate the gift of one another's presence and work hard
respect pluralism and live in harmony.
11. What are the Citizenship Responsibilities? Answer: Obeying the law, Taking
responsibility for oneself
and one's family, Serving on a jury, Voting in elections, helping others in the community, protecting and
enjoying our heritage and environment.
12. What is the name of Canada's original constitutional document? Answe
The British North
America Act. It is also known as the Constitution Act.
13. When was the British North America Act created? Answer: July
1867.
14. What is the key phrase in Canada's original constitutional document
in 1867 (the British North America Act)? Answer: Peace, Order and Good Government. The
,act oflciated the Dominion of Canada.
15. What is Canada's three founding peoples? Answer: Aboriginal, French an
British
, 16. When were Territorial rights first guaranteed? Answer: 1763 in the Royal
Proclamation by King George III. Unfortunately, treaties that were not always fully respected.
17. During what time period did the federal government place many
Aboriginal children in residential schools to educate and assimilate them
into mainstream Canadian culture? Answer: From the 1800s until the 1980s
18. When did the federal government formally apologize to the former
(Aborig- inal) students? Answer: 2008
19. What are the three distinct groups referred to by the term
Aboriginal peo- ples? Answer: First Nations (formerly Indian), Inuit, and Metis.
20. Who are the Inuit? Answer: The Inuit, which means "the people" in the Inuktitut
language, live in small, scattered
communities across the Arctic.
21. Who are the Metis? Answer: The Metis are a distinct people of mixed Aboriginal and
European ancestry, the majority of whom live in the Prairie provinces. They come from both French-
and English-speaking backgrounds and speak their own dialect, Michif.
22. What is the approximate geographic distribution of the First Nations
peo- ple? Answer: About half live on reserve land in about 600 communities while the other half live
ott-reserve, mainly in urban centres.
23. What is the approximate population distribution of the Aboriginal
people? Answer: -
About 65% are First Nations, while 30% are Metis, and 4% are Inuit.
24. Who was John Buchan? Answer: A popular Governor General of Canada (1935-40
25. Approximately how many Francophones are there in Canada? Answer: 7
