Chapter 17 Practice Quiz

Canada in the World
. It was Prime Minister ________ who said, "The twentieth century will belong to Canada."

. The central feature of Canada's economic condition is ________.

. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Canada's prosperity depended on the exploitation and export of all of the following resources, except ________.

. Proponents of realism are more likely to take positions sympathetic to maintaining or even deepening Canada-US integration on issues such as ________.

. A 2013 survey found that ________ of Canadians believed there should be free trade between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

. The two factors that most distinguish globalization today from international trade in earlier times are ________.

. The two factors that have driven globalization in recent decades are ________.

. According to the textbook, a major factor in driving the increase in child poverty has been ________.

. According to Statistics Canada, compared with 40 years ago, the share of Canada's total population living below the poverty line has ________.

. According to the 2001 United Nations report, increased globalization goes hand in hand with governments' ________ in developed countries.

. The fundamental problem that besets many developing countries plagued by "state capacity deficit" is ________.

. Ineffective public administration that characterizes countries with "state capacity deficit" involves ________.

. As compared with a generation ago, public spending on health care, education, and income maintenance as a share of total government expenditures in Canada is ________.

. According to the author, ________ have forced us to rethink what were, until fairly recently, firmly established ideas about what is Canadian.

. The largest source of foreign investment in Canada has long been ________.

. Investment from the United States currently accounts for close to ________ of all foreign investment in Canada.

. The developments viewed by some as having the potential to loosen the ties between Canada and the United States include ________.

. The resolution of international differences and conflicts through structures and processes that represent many states and give all of them a voice is called ________.

. According to surveys summarized in the textbook, Canadians and Americans don't agree on several issues, but they are about equally likely to ________.

. Canada was a founding members of the United States, established in ________.

. What does Brooks list as areas in which Canada has been criticized by international actors and commentators?

. Which of the following is typically true of realists?

. Which of the following does Brooks say is true of Canada-US relations?

. What Prime Minister does Brooks say was one of the "chief architects" of Canadian foreign policy after World War II?

. In a poll from Environics, most Canadians expressed dissatisfaction with their country's role in the world.

. According to Brooks, for Canada, the question of globalization is inseparable from that of its relationship with the United States.

. Canada's international image is rather negative, especially in the context of immigration and investment.

. After the creation of World Trade Organization in 1995, national subsidies and protectionism have completely disappeared from international trade.

. Canadians are the most pro-free trade of the three NAFTA populations: the US, Canada, and Mexico.

. There is no convincing evidence that globalization has caused a decline in state capacity among developed countries.

. If one examines social and political institutions from the family to structures of local and national governance, there is overwhelming evidence that globalization has eroded differences and pushed different societies and cultures towards a common norm.

. The Canada-US trade relationship is the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world.

. Canada is the single largest source of energy imports to the United States.

. The objective of the federal government's policy known as the Third Option, created in the 1970s, was to increase Canada's economic relations specifically with India.

. Due to globalization, Canada is more dependent today on trade with the United States than at any time in the last half-century.

. Canada has accepted the idea of a common security perimeter around Canada and the United States.

. The term "soft influence" means a nation's influence that relies on the attractiveness of its values, processes, and structures for representation, negotiation, and co-operation, and a leadership style that relies on example, persuasion, and engagement instead of threats and isolation.

. Today, the serious debate is not about whether the forces of globalization can be rolled back, but how and in what instances they can and should be controlled.

. Most Canadians believe that they are respected, listened to, and admired abroad.

. Canada has been described as "one of the heavyweights of geopolitics" globally.

. Since World War II, policy-makers in Canada have generally favoured a more open trading environment.

. Canada exports more to Michigan than to the EU and more to California than to China.

. Canada's current contribution to global peace-keeping is higher than ever before.

. Canada meets the annual NATO spending target of 2% of its GDP.

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