Canadian Crossword

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  1. 5. a way of grading.
  2. 6. The WMA invoked during the October Crisis
  3. 9. After re-election in the 1965 election, he served as parliamentary secretary (junior minister) to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
  4. 11. Canadian society is often depicted as having diversity and ______________.
  5. 12. _____________ Accord attempted to resolve long-standing disputes around the division of powers between federal and provincial jurisdiction. It provided for exclusive provincial jurisdiction over forestry, mining, and other natural resources, and cultural policy.
  6. 13. the reign of Bourassa.
  7. 15. to obtain control over a constitution that was formerly under the control of a colonial power.
  8. 17. was the 1960s period of intense change in Quebec, Canada, characterized by the rapid and effective secularization of society, the creation of a welfare state (état-providence), and realignment of politics into federalist and separatist factions.
  9. 18. led the PQ into the 1998 provincial election.
  10. 19. the right to govern one’s self.
  11. 20. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
  12. 21. a series of events triggered by two kidnappings of government officials by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during October 1970 in the province of Quebec, mainly in the Montreal metropolitan area.
  13. 22. Night of the Long Knives
  14. 25. won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis.
  15. 27. also called national sovereignty.
  16. 29. the quiet revolution.
  17. 31. was later referred to as the Red Paper.
  18. 32. a weasel clause allowing a provincial government to enact legislation ruled as against the Canadian Constitution.
  19. 33. statut particulier of Quebec and its people, wholly or partially.
  20. 34. responsible for the the 1995 referendum.
  21. 36. was made an Officer of the Order of Canada 1971.
  22. 37. In 1997 he was elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations for the first time. Following his first term as national chief.
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  1. 1. the act of entering a new country to settle permanently.
  2. 2. a vote by the whole of an electorate on a specific question or questions put to it by a government the result of which is binding.
  3. 3. was elected as a federal Member of Parliament for the riding of Montmagny-L'Islet as a Liberal for the first time in the 1945 general election.
  4. 4. invoked the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to override a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that declared parts of the Charter of the French Language unconstitutional.
  5. 7. served as the 16th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959.
  6. 8. a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the ten provincial premiers.
  7. 10. first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada
  8. 14. The process for amending the Canadian Constitution.
  9. 16. The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
  10. 23. was introduced as part of Canada's process of patriating the constitution, introducing several amendments.
  11. 24. helped quash the Meech Lake accord
  12. 26. Native Land claims that are reviewed and decided upon by the government
  13. 28. a Canadian policy paper proposal made by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Minister of Indian Affairs, Jean Chrétien in 1969.
  14. 30. acceptance speech included one of his most famous quotations: "I never thought that I could be so proud to be Québécois."
  15. 35. kidnapped and assassinated by members of the group Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during the October Crisis.