Chapter 7 – Politics and Government

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1. Explain the importance of the 1969 White Paper and Red Paper.

2. Give examples of the federal government’s attempts to assimilate Aboriginal people into Canadian society.

3. List three social changes made by Diefenbaker and three social changes made by Pearson.

4. What did Pearson and Trudeau do to address rising Quebec Nationalism?

5. Who was the FLQ, what was their motivation and what did they do in Quebec?

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  1. 1.They changed the status of Aboriginal people, such as Aboriginal people can have their own lands and be reconized as people in Canada.
    2. Federal government set up the resident school to force Aboriginal kids to become the white people. They need to learn western culture and forget their own tradition.
    3.For Diefenbaker, he brought more rights for people. For example, people had freedom of religion and freedom of speech, they can do everything that they want to do. For Pearson, his government introduced a trial abolition of capital punishment and easier divorce laws. Above all, he is remembered for introducing Canada’s flag in 1965.
    4.Both of them don’t like FLQ, they didn’t agree with that Quebec should separate from Canada. Therefore, they introduced the policy to against people in Quebec such as October crisis.
    5.FLQ was the group that support Quebec bacome a new country. They don’t want to learn English and they hope to live as a French. They against the federal government and do lots of things to protect their own culturesin Quebec.

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  2. 1. The White Paper would end special status for Aboriginal people and place them on an equal footing with other Canadian. Its intent was to encourage Aboriginal people to leave the reserves, seek jobs in the cities. In 1970, the Indian Association of Alberta, under Canadian leadership, rejected the white paper in their document Citizens Plus, which became popularly known as the Red Paper.
    2. For example policy of absorbing Aboriginal people into white society through the process of removing children from their family.
    3. Social change for Diefenbaker:
    -Granted the vote to the First Nations and Inuit people.
    -Canadian Bill of Rights in 1960.
    -Extended franchise to all Aboriginal people in 1960.
    Social change for Pearson :
    -Formulated basic post-WW1 foreign policy.
    -The government implemented a Canada Pension Plan, a new flag, and so on.
    -Won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his part in creating the UN peacekeeping force.
    4. Prime Minister Trudeau announces the imposition of the War Measures Act.
    5. FLQ was a separatist and Marxist-Leninist terrorist and paramilitary group in Quebec. The overthrow of the Quebec government, the independence of Quebec from Canada, they want to have a French-speaking Quebecer “workers’ society.

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  3. 1. Explain the importance of the 1969 White Paper and Red Paper.

    The white paper facilitates advent of indigenous people’s better life.
    And the red paper is the paper indigenous people wrote to the government for improving their lifes.
    2. Give examples of the federal government’s attempts to assimilate Aboriginal people into Canadian society.

    For example, the government built many residential schools, force the indigenous children learn English not only but also culture and religion in order to assimilate them.
    3. List three social changes made by Diefenbaker and three social changes made by Pearson.
    Diefenbaker was the first to appoint women and indigenous people to the government. He also helps Canada get out of Britain’s control.
    For Pearson, he resolved the Suez Canal Crisis, made better social welfare and abolished death penalty.
    4. What did Pearson and Trudeau do to address rising Quebec Nationalism?
    They added French as the second official language in Canada and also post Bill 22 which protect the Quebec people’s rights on language and culture.
    5. Who was the FLQ, what was their motivation and what did they do in Quebec?
    It’s a group French Canadian who use violence to
    FLQ was the group formed by French spoke Canadian, who wants the Canadian government to promote the position of French in Canada and they do that by using violence, they kidnap officers and killed one of them. The FLQ caused many problems and made not only government but also citizens’ panic

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  4. 1.It changed the status of the indigenous people and gave them the opportunity to work and get out of the reserve.

    2.Many boarding schools were built for aboriginal people. And forcing aboriginal children to learn English and their culture.

    3.List three social changes made by Diefenbaker.The appointment of a woman as Canada’s secretary of state,Let aborigines do business and Make Canada an independent country.three social changes made by Pearson. The Suez Canal crisis was solved, the death penalty abolished, and wealth made available to more people.

    4.Enact a law to make French a second language in Canada, and crack down on opposition.

    5.A Canadian terrorist group made up of french-speaking canadians. They supported Quebec’s independence. For this they kidnapped the government and destroyed the facility.

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  5. 1. The government were trying to make aboriginal people’s life better.
    2. The Federal Government had established indigenous schools that had forced Indigenous children to become white. They need to learn Western culture and forget about their traditions.
    3. Pearson was Canada’s foremost diplomat of the 1950s and 1960s, and formulated its basic post-WWII foreign policy. … In 1957, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic efforts in facilitating Britain and France’s departure from Egypt during the Suez Crisis.
    4. Trudeau rose to prominence as a lawyer, intellectual, and activist in Québec politics. He joined the Liberal Party and was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1965, quickly being appointed as Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson’s Parliamentary Secretary. In 1967, he was appointed Minister of Justice.
    5. FLQ members practiced propaganda of the deed and issued declarations that called for a socialist insurrection against oppressors identified with “Anglo-Saxon” imperialism, the overthrow of the Quebec government.

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  6. 1. It highlighted the “right of people to full and equal participation in the cultural, social, economic and political life of Canada” and insisted that “to argue against this right is to argue for discrimination, isolation and separation.”it changed the status of Aboriginal people in Canada.
    2. The government forces indigenous people to go to residential schools, forcefully cuts girls ’traditional long hair, does not allow them to speak their own dialects, must learn social knowledge, and requires them to forget their traditional culture.
    3. For Diefenbaker, he brought more rights for people. For example, people had freedom of religion and freedom of speech, they can do everything that they want to do. For Pearson, his government introduced a trial abolition of capital punishment and easier divorce laws, formulated basic post-WW1 foreign policy.

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