Text Glossary for all things beginning with N to P
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| show | The total amount of money owed by the government of Canada. The national debt became a problem for Canada during the 1970s and 1980s when both Liberal and Conservative governments spent much more money than they took in.
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| show | Established by the Trudeau government after the 1970s oil crisis. It set the price of Alberta oil and this alienated Western Canadians as it called into question who owns the natural resources of the provinces.
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| National Film Board | show 🗑
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| Nationalism | show 🗑
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| show | The difference between the crude birth rate and crude death rate.
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| Netherlands campaign | show 🗑
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| Net migration rates | show 🗑
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| New Deal (Canada) | show 🗑
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| New Democratic Party | show 🗑
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| Newfoundland | show 🗑
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| Newfoundland Regiment | show 🗑
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| Newly industrialized countries | show 🗑
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| Nisg'a Land Claim | show 🗑
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | show 🗑
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| Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) | show 🗑
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| Non-renewable resources | show 🗑
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| Notwithstanding clause | show 🗑
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| NORAD | show 🗑
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| show | The measure of how much nutrition in calories an area of land can produce.
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| show | On October 5, 1970, members of the FLQ kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross in Montreal, and demanded the release of jailed FLQ members.
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| show | Passed by tbe Trudeau government in 1969. The Act made Canada an officially bilingual country. It required the federal government to provide services in both languages across Canada in all federal institutions.
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| show | land. The Mohawk Warrior Society decided to stop the expansion, which led to a stand off between the Quebec Police, the Canadian Army, and the Mohawk warriors.
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| Old Age Pensions Act | show 🗑
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| "On to Ottawa Trek" | show 🗑
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| "One Big Union" | show 🗑
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| show | A policy began by the Chinese government in 1980 to control the rapidly growing population. Cash rewards, free medical care, and better educational opportunities were offered as incentives to parents who had only one child.
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| One Hundred Days Campaign 1918 | show 🗑
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| show | Code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on June 22,1941.
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| show | The code name for the Allied attack on Normandy on June 6,1944.
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| show | A decision made by the Cabinet that has the force of law unless overturned by the House of Commons.
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | show 🗑
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| show | A town in South Eastern Italy where some of the most bitter fighting involving Canadian soldiers in the Second World war took place in December 1943.
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| Ottoman Empire | show 🗑
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| Our Common Future (Brundtland Commission) | show 🗑
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| Ozone | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the outer atmosphere that protects the Earth from the harmful affects of solar radiation.
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| Pandemic | show 🗑
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| show | In our government system the parliament has legislative power, that is, the power to make laws. For the federal government it is made up of the House of Commons, the Senate, and the Governor General.
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| show | Separatist party in Quebec founded by Ren6 L6vesque in 1967. The party came to power in 1976, and failed in its attempt to have a sovereignty association referendum passed in 1 980.
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| Party Discipline | show 🗑
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| show | The beliefs, or ideology that a political party wants people to accept and therefore vote them into office. This term also refers to promises made by a party before or during an election campaign.
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| show | Each party in the House of Commons has one person who fills the role of keeping party members in line and ensuring that all members vote according to the collective desire of the party.
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| Passchendaele, Battle of | show 🗑
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| show | Bringing home the BNA act from Britain to finally make Canada independent. It was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's plan to "bring the Constitution home to Canada" so it could be amended in Canada and be truly a Canadian document.
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| Patronage | show 🗑
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| Peacekeeping | show 🗑
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| show | The Japanese naval air force made a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour Hawaii on December 7 1941. The attack put the US into the war.
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| Pearson, Lester Bowles 1897-1972 | show 🗑
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| show | Divide the GDP by the number of people in a country to find the average GDP per person or per capita.
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| show | Permanently frozen subsoil in the northern parts of Canada. The amount and level of permafrost is being affected by global warming.
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| show | In 1928 five female activists including Emily Murphy, challenged Mackenzie King to appoint a female senator. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that women were not "persons" under the terms of the BNA Act. The women won this case.
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| show | A Canadian movie star who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and became known as "America's sweetheart".
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| show | In 1967, Lester Pearson's Liberal government introduced a "colour blind" point system to Canada's immigration policy. awarded points on the basis of such factors as education, job skills, age, languages spoken, etc.
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| Political parties | show 🗑
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| Population density | show 🗑
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| Population distribution | show 🗑
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| Population pyramid | show 🗑
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| show | Measure of the amount of money individuals have available to look after all their needs. In Canada poverty is defined as having to spend more than 56% of a person's income on the necessities of life such as food, shelter, and clothing.
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| Premier | show 🗑
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| show | A group of people who share a certain set of ideas and want to influence government policy in order to promote their interests.
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| Prime Minister | show 🗑
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| Primary industries | show 🗑
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| Private member's bill | show 🗑
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| show | The level of economic output for a country. A country based on a traditional economy will have a low level of productivity. A country with a developed economy will have a high level of productivity.
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| show | A federal political party formed in 1919.Supported a policy of free trade and public ownership of railways. The Progressives were largely responsible for persuading Mackenzie King to introduce an old age pension scheme in 1927.
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| show | A new child risk index developed by UNICEF. Measures five factors:the mortality rates of children under five,percentage of children underweight,number of children not in primary school,the risk from armed conflict,and the risk from the disease HIV/AIDS.
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| Prohibition | show 🗑
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| Proportional representation | show 🗑
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| Propaganda | show 🗑
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| show | As part of the economic cycle prosperity refers to a period when the economy is strong, unemployment rates are low, and the amount of wealth created is high.
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| Protest Party | show 🗑
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| Protected Areas Strategy (PAS) | show 🗑
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| Protectionism | show 🗑
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| Pull factors | show 🗑
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| Push factors | show 🗑
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