Chapter 5 Practice Quiz

Regionalism and Canadian Politics
. The following statement regarding regionalism is false: ________.

. Signs indicating that there has been an upsurge of regionalism in the last few decades are ________.

. The gap between the real prosperity of the richest and poorest provinces has not narrowed because ________.

. The use of constitutional, legal, and taxation mechanisms to increase control within a province, thereby increasing that province's status at a federal level, is known as ________.

. The five main regions of Canada commonly spoken about are ________.

. The median government transfer amount for families in Canada in 2011 was ________.

. In terms of tariffs as part of Canada's economic policy, ________.

. The following statement about Alberta and Saskatchewan's entry into Confederation is false: ________.

. The National Energy Program ________.

. Ornstein and Stevenson's survey of political ideology in Canada measured Canadians' support for ________.

. Survey respondents from ________ report the weakest personal sense of belonging to Canada.

. The Canada–US cross-border regions ________.

. The Great Lakes–Heartland cross-border region ________.

. The ________ cross-border regions are characterized by a strong sense of regional identity.

. The following statement regarding the cross-border regions (CBRs) is false: ________.

. Members of the Great Lakes–Heartland CBR are linked by

. Populism ________.

. What Canadian Prime Minister said that "Canada has too much geography"?

. What does Brooks list as three ways of determining a region?

. Which of the following institutions require or attempt to accommodate regional interests or perspectives?

. What province has taken the lead on opposing the Trudeau government's federal carbon tax?

. Which of the following was identified as important national symbols of Canada in Statistics Canada's General Social Survey?

. James Madison argued that a larger territory encompassing a greater diversity of regional interests was more likely to provide protection for personal freedoms, group rights, and sectional interests than would a smaller, more homogeneous country.

. The history of the West and the political traditions that evolved in Western Canada are disconnected from those of the rest of Canada.

. Intrastate federalism involves conflict and co-operation within the institutions of the national state.

. Common economic interests, often linked to physical geography, may provide a basis for the classification of regions.

. The regional variation within Canada's industrial structure has caused political conflicts such as the dispute between Alberta and Ottawa over the Kyoto Protocol.

. Many Albertans quite reasonably believed that that National Energy Program involved an enormous transfer of wealth from Alberta to the rest of Canada, and chiefly to the consumers and industries of Canada's industrial heartland.

. The ideological profiles of the provinces show only small differences, with the exception of Alberta, which is clearly to the left of the others.

. A significant degree of shared values and even a sense of regional identity characterize all of the Canada–US cross-border regions.

. Quebec–New England and Atlantic–New England are different groupings within the East CBR, and they are both characterized by a strong sense of regional identity.

. The concept of cross-border regions enables us to understand the integration between Canada and the United States, as well as ensure that subnational governments play important roles in the management of cross-border issues.

. According to Debora VanNijnatten, North American integration is a bottom-up phenomenon.

. The East has been characterized by resentment towards and alienation from Ottawa because of what it describes as the political preoccupation of central Canada.

. Neil Nevitte and his colleagues find that immigrants from non-European source countries tend to be "less federally oriented than the local population in their province."

. Populism arose from the perception that economic and political elites were too powerful and unsympathetic to the interests of the peoples.

. Ontarians are more likely to think of themselves in provincial terms than Albertans or Nova Scotians.

. Some provinces did not immediately receive the law-making powers of other provinces when they entered Confederation.

. McGrane and Berdahl say there are stronger inter-provincial than inter-regional variations in Canada.

. Alberta and British Columbia have had the highest immigration after Ontario and Quebec since the 1980s.

. As of the 2016 census, one in three Canadians lives west of Ontario.

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