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Mulroney to Present
Quiz on the Canadian history unit from the terms of Mulroney to the present.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name of the first and only female Prime Minister to date: | Kim Campbell |
| One of the most hated taxes ever; brought in under Mulroney. | GST (General Sales Tax) |
| Mulroney's successor in 1993: | Kim Campbell |
| Kim Campbell's successor after her 3 month term in office: | Jean Chretien |
| Massacre at Ecole Polytechnique; 14 female students murdered on Dec. 6, 1989 | Montreal Massacre |
| Gunman of the Montreal Massacre who left a suicide note claiming feminists had ruined his chance at a job in engineering | Marc Lepine |
| Woman from Alberta; did not get a fair share of her farm in divorce. Took her case to the supreme court; family laws resultantly changed | Irene Murdoch |
| Elected in BC and part of the NDP; the first black woman to have a political position in Canada. | Rosemary Brown |
| Party officially fighting for Quebec separatism: | Bloc Quebecois |
| Party that became popular in the West; represented western discontent: | Reform Party |
| Which act meant that all Canadians would have access to medically necessary services? | Canada Health Act (CHA) 1984 |
| Name given to a health care system with both private and public options: | Two-Tier System |
| Created universal health care in Canada | Tommy Douglas |
| Canada was recognized for expertise in robotics because of what new technology (developed during the space race)? | Canadarm |
| Event that brought the beginning of the end of the Cold War in 1989? | Fall of the Berlin Wall |
| Last leader of the Soviet Union, often credited with the end of the Cold War? | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Who took over leadership of the Soviet Union after the fall of Communism and an attempted coup on Gorbachev? | Boris Yeltsin |
| Terry Fox's fund raiser for cancer was his run across Canada called the: | Marathon of Hope |
| Name of the paraplegic who circumnavigated the globe during his Man in Motion world tour? | Rick Hansen |
| Craig Kielburger began at the age of twelve the charity called: | Free the Children |
| The Twin towers and Pentagon were destroyed in deliberate plan crashes on: | September 11, 2001 |
| Number of people killed by forgotten land mines each week? | 500 |
| Group of eight includes? | Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, and USA |
| Pact signed by every country except the United States agreeing to ban greenhouse gases? | Kyoto Protocol/Accords |
| Poland, Former Yugoslavia, Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Bangladesh, India, China, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Russia are the "top ten" countries of what? | Official Development Assistance (ODA) |
| Famous Canadian environmentalist? | David Suzuki |
| The word "detente" means what? | a "lessening of tensions" |
| Trade agreement including Mexico and signed by Jean Chretien in 1994: | NAFTA |
| Two countries where Canada participated in peacekeeping in Africa were: | Somalia and Rwanda |
| Led Canadian troops in Rwanda and published his experience in the book "Shake Hands With the Devil": | Romeo Dallaire |
| Leader of Yugoslavia largely responsible and convicted by the ICC for the ethnic cleansing of Serbians and Kosovars: | Milosevic |
| Developed in 1998 to put on trial those like Milosevic who committed crimes against humanity: | International Criminal Court (ICC) |
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