Deck 8: Class

Question 1

Which statement best describes the position of state-centred theorists with regard to class-consciousness in Canada?

A)The corporate elite is the most powerful force in the political system.
B)Market forces should determine the distribution of income.
C)Due to a low level of class consciousness, politicians can ignore the demands of the working class.
D)The Canadian Labour Congress is an important working-class pressure group.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The largest union in Canada is the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is NOT usually a demand of the corporate elite?

A)tax cuts for individuals
B)cutting transfer payments to provinces
C)deregulation
D)removing the tax advantages of income trusts

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Who brought in national medicare in the 1960s?

A)Lester B. Pearson
B)R.B Bennett
C)Premier Tommy Douglas
D)Mackenzie King

Question 5

Class-consciousness in Canada is weakest among the new middle class.

Question 6

Since 2004, approximately what percentage of union members have been women?

A)10
B)50
C)60
D)70

Question 7

Collective bargaining is protected by the freedom of association clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Question 8

What field is NOT included in the main principal of federal measures?

A)foreign workers
B)seniors
C)people with disabilities
D)unemployed

Question 9

The Canadian social safety net reached its height in the 1960s.

Question 10

Which category best describes the "working class"?

A)petit bourgeoisie
B)proletariat
C)new middle class
D)economic elite

Question 11

What program is NOT part of the Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST)?

A)health
B)post-secondary education
C)rehabilitation
D)welfare

Question 12

Which group is NOT part of the petite bourgeoisie class?

A)small business people
B)affluent farmers
C)self-employed professionals
D)civil servants

Question 13

Even though the House of Commons passed a resolution in 1989 to eliminate child poverty in Canada by 2000, the number of children living in poverty increased by 50 percent during the 1990s.

Question 14

The Social Credit Party pioneered hospital and medical insurance at the provincial level in Saskatchewan.

Question 15

The Liberal government introduced the Unemployment Act in 1940.

Question 16

The new middle class includes salaried professionals.

Question 17

Karl Marx divided society in a capitalist economy into two separate classes. What did he call these two classes?

A)the petite bourgeoisie and the corporate elite
B)the poor and the rich
C)the bourgeoisie and proletariat
D)the upper and middle

Question 18

The Employment and Social Insurance Act enacted by R.B. Bennett's Conservatives was declared unconstitutional by the courts.

Question 19

There are currently almost one million Canadians living in poverty.

Question 20

Within the apparatus of government, what is often seen as a lobby for big business?

A)House of Commons
B)judiciary
C)bureaucracy
D)Senate

Question 21

What is the significance of the social safety net?

Question 22

Why are the corporate elite thought to wield so much political power in Canada?

Question 23

What does it mean to be "class-conscious"? How does this sentiment affect the working and poor classes in Canada?

Question 24

What are some of the significant differences between the "old" and the "new" middle class?

Question 25

List five suggestions for how governments could improve the lot of the poor.