How much do you know about Canadian politics [and history]

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Canada? What Party is he from?

2 - Name the two houses of the Canadian Parliament (the official English names)

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition (official, not interim - bonus points if you can name both)

4 - How many Provinces are in Canada (not including the 3 territories)

5 - Name the 4 parties that ran in over 90% of the ridings nation-wide, in all the elections since 2004.

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he.



HISTORICAL

7 - The smallest province, Prince Edward Island, has a minimum number of seats it can elect to the House, written in law. What is this number?

8 - Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?

9 - Who was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister?

10 - In terms of the share of seats taken, which Prime Minister won the most seats, and, which party did he represent (official legal name of said party at time of election)

11 - One Prime Minister was so popular that a special term was developed to describe his popularity. What is this term?

12 - Who was the only non-Liberal Prime Minister to win the majority of Quebec seats two elections in a row?

13 - Which leader of the opposition is often called "The best Prime Minister we never had"

14 - Who was the first Female Prime Minister?



PROVINCIAL (Note that you must answer 6 of these, but, you pick which 6!)

15 - Quebec. The election of which Premier, representing which Party, began "The Quiet Revolution"

16 - Ontario. Which Premier of Ontario was in office when both the Toronto Subway, and Highway 401 were built.

17 - Alberta. What was Premier William Aberhart's nickname?

18 - Newfoundland. Who was the first Premier of the province?

19 - Saskatchewan. Who was the province's first Socialist Premier?

20 - Prince Edward Island. Which party won all the seats in a general election, and when did this occur?

21 - New Brunswick. Which party won the official opposition, beating the Tories, in 1991, and what was their main campaign plank.

22 - Nova Scotia. Who is the current Premier, and which party is he from?

23 - Manitoba. Who is often called the "Father of Manitoba"

24 - British Columbia. One of this province's first Premiers, legally changed his name to something out of this world. What was that name, when translated from Latin into English?



DIFFICULT

25 - Who was the only Communist elected to Parliament. What was his ultimate fate in that chamber?

26 - What are all the different names used by the Tories in Canada over history? Include the branch of the party that the current Leader came from.

27 - What is the nickname for the Liberal Party of Canada?

28 - Who was the first official leader of the merged Tories in 2003?

29 - Where and how did the speaker of the house who caused the pipeline debate crisis die.



IMPOSSIBLE

30 - One of our Prime Ministers has a nickname which is the real last-name of a Prime Minister from another commonwealth country. What is this nickname?

31 - In Mount Royal, it was once said that what item, if painted red, could win election?

32 - What was the residence of the "true" leader of the original Rhino Party?


BONUS

xx - Of all the people in the correct answers to this test, which single one is Teddy's fav politician of all time?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Answers! highlight to read

1 - Stephen Harper, Conservative Party of Canada
2 - House of Commons, Senate
3 - Jack Layton. Nycole Turmel.
4 - 10
5 - Conservative, Liberal, NDP, Green
6 - Paul Martin, Liberal Party of Canada

7 - 4
8 - John A Macdonald
9 - William Lyon Mackenzie King
10 - John Diefenbaker, Progressive Conservative
11 - Trudeaumania
12 - Brian Mulroney
13 - Robert Stanfield
14 - Kim Campbell

15 - Jean Lassage, Liberal
16 - Leslie Frost
17 - Bible Bill
18 - Joey Smallwood
19 - Tommy Douglas
20 - 1935, Liberal
21 - Confederation of Regions, end to bi-lingualism
22 - Darryl Dexter, NDP
23 - Louis Reil
24 - Lover of the Cosmos

25 - Fred Rose. Kicked out for spying. Half points on the name if you go with Tim Buck who is more famous but never served.
26 - Conservative, Liberal-Conservative, Progressive Conservative, Reform, Canadian Alliance.
27 - Grits (also True Grits)
28 - John Lynch Stanton
29 - Penniless and in the back of a Taxi (in Montreal)

30 - Muldoon
31 - Mailbox
32 - Granby Zoo

xx - Leslie Frost

[Hash]

1: Adolf Hitler Steve Harper, Tories

2: HOC + Senate

3: Jack Layton and Nycole Turmel interim

4: 10

5: CON, LIB, NDP, GRN

6: Paul Martin, Liberal


HISTORICAL

7: 4

8: John A. 'Drunk on the job' MacDonald

9: William Lyon 'talks to dead people' Mackenzie King

10: Diefslide of 58 with the Progressive Conservatives?

11: Trudeaumania

12: Mulroney in 84 and 88

13: Stanfield?

14: Campbell


PROVINCIAL (Note that you must answer 6 of these, but, you pick which 6!)

15: Jean Lesage Liberal

16: Leslie Frost, PC

17: Bible Bill

18: Joey Smallwood, Lib

19: Tommy Douglas, CCF

20: Liberals or something dunno when, don't count this question.

21: Confederation of Regions, against official bilingualism

22: Darrel Dexter, NDP

23: Lord. Clifford Sifton?

24: Bill Vander Zalm to whatever "Annoying Corrupt Asshole who should go DIAF" is in Latin

DIFFICULT

25: Fred Rose, Cartier. Got canned for being a Soviet spy or something and got thrown out of the House

26: Liberal-Conservatives, Conservatives, Unionist, National Liberal and Conservative, National Government, Progressive Conservatives, Reform, Canadian Alliance, DRC, Conservative Party of Canada. Harper is an Alliancist.

27: Grits or only decent party

28: Some old geezer, Staunton or Stanton or something

29: no idea

IMPOSSIBLE

30: No clue

31: mailbox

32: Granby Zoo, QC

[Хahar 🤔]

EDIT: 25½ out of 32

1. Stephen Harper, Conservative
2. House of Commons, Senate
3. Jack Layton, Nycole Turmel
4. 10
5. Conservative, New Democratic, Liberal, Green
6. Paul Martin, Liberal
7. 4
8. John Macdonald
9. W.L.M. King
10. Brian Mulroney, Progressive Conservative
11. Trudeaumania
12. Brian Mulroney
13. Robert Stanfield
14. Kim Campbell
15. Jean Lesage, Liberal
17. Big Bill
19. Tommy Douglas
20. Liberal, can't remember the date
21. Confederation of Regions, Anglophone rights
22. Darrell Dexter, New Democratic
25. Don't remember the name, expelled
26. Conservative, Progressive Conservative, Reform, Canadian Alliance, Conservative (again)
27. Grits
28. Don't know
29. Don't know
30. Don't know
31. Mailbox
32. A zoo in Quebec
xx. Don't know

[Foucaulf]

I actually had a Canadian politics quiz typed up a few days ago, but I never got to post it. If Teddy doesn't mind I'd like to put it in this topic anyway.

By the way, Amor De Cosmos's name wasn't in actual Latin!

[MaxQue]

1. Stephen Harper, Puppet of Lords of the Tar Sands, Conservative, Calgary-Southeast.

2. Sénat-Senate and/et Chambre des Communes-House of Commons. Parliament is bilingual, too (in theory).

3. Official: Jack Layton, NDP, Toronto-Danforth.
   Interim: Nicole Turmel, NDP, Hull-Aylmer. Former leader of the public servants' union.

4. 10! (or 9, if we ask my parents what the answer should be).

5. Conservative, NDP, Liberal, Green.

6. Paul Martin, Liberal, LaSalle-Émard.

7. 4 (Malpeque, Cardigan, Charlottetown, Egmont (with horrible Gail Shea).

8. John A. MacDonald

9. I'm not sure, but I'll try William Lyon Mackenzie King, Liberal.

10. I'm not sure, I'm stuck between two. I'll say Brian Mulroney, Progressive-Conservative, Manicouagan. If not, it is John Diefenbacker, same party.

11. Trudeaumania.

12. Mulroney.

13. Robert Stanfield, Progressive-Conservative, Halifax?

14. Kim Campbell, Progressive-Conservative, Vancouver-something.

15. Jean Lesage, Liberal.

16. Davis? (don't count)

17. Crazy Abe? (don't count)

18. Joey Smallwood, Liberal.

19. Tommy Douglas, NDP.

20. Liberal, in 1935?

21. Confederation of Regions, on anti-bilinguism.

22. Darrell Dexter, NDP.

23. Louis Riel? (don't count)

24. Not a clue. The strangest I see is Vander Zalm, which means crazy insane in the Nederlands language, to me. (don't count)

25. Good question, I already know. I think he defected to the Liberals.

26. Conservative, Conservative and Unionist, Conservative, National Government (1940 election), Progressive-Conservative, Reform, Alliance, Conservative.

27. The Grits (formely Clear Grits, but "clear" doesn't describe them well, now).

28. The Senator Stauton-Mills?

29. I never heard of that "crisis".

30. Brown?

31. A MAILBOX! A MAILBOX! By the way, my shopping mall is in Mont-Royal riding.

32. Granby Zoo. I already went there.

xx. Trudeau?

Edit: 24,5/32 or 23,5/28.

[minionofmidas]

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Canada? What Party is he from?
Steve Harper, CPC

2 - Name the two houses of the Canadian Parliament (the official English names)
Commons and Senate?

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition (official, not interim - bonus points if you can name both)
Jack Layton. Some Frenchwoman name.

4 - How many Provinces are in Canada (not including the 3 territories)
modern Canada has 10 provinces, two of which are in the historical region of Canada.

5 - Name the 4 parties that ran in over 90% of the ridings nation-wide, in all the elections since 2004.
CPC, Liberals, NDP, Greens.

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he.
Paul Martin, Liberal.

HISTORICAL

7 - The smallest province, Prince Edward Island, has a minimum number of seats it can elect to the House, written in law. What is this number?
4

8 - Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?
I forget. Does it matter? Some Scottish name IIRC.

9 - Who was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister?
Dunno.

10 - In terms of the share of seats taken, which Prime Minister won the most seats, and, which party did he represent (official legal name of said party at time of election)
I can only guess, and several options come to mind. Brian Mulroney, Progressive Conservatives, 1984?

11 - One Prime Minister was so popular that a special term was developed to describe his popularity. What is this term?
dunno

12 - Who was the only non-Liberal Prime Minister to win the majority of Quebec seats two elections in a row?
Mulroney.

13 - Which leader of the opposition is often called "The best Prime Minister we never had"
dunno. Jack Layton?

14 - Who was the first Female Prime Minister?
Kim... Kim... now dammit, what was her surname?

PROVINCIAL (Note that you must answer 6 of these, but, you pick which 6!)
Nobody can force me to answer that.

15 - Quebec. The election of which Premier, representing which Party, began "The Quiet Revolution"

16 - Ontario. Which Premier of Ontario was in office when both the Toronto Subway, and Highway 401 were built.

17 - Alberta. What was Premier William Aberhart's nickname?

18 - Newfoundland. Who was the first Premier of the province?

19 - Saskatchewan. Who was the province's first Socialist Premier?
Tommy Douglas?

20 - Prince Edward Island. Which party won all the seats in a general election, and when did this occur?

21 - New Brunswick. Which party won the official opposition, beating the Tories, in 1991, and what was their main campaign plank.

22 - Nova Scotia. Who is the current Premier, and which party is he from?
NDP

23 - Manitoba. Who is often called the "Father of Manitoba"
I can only hope that that refers to Louis Riel.

24 - British Columbia. One of this province's first Premiers, legally changed his name to something out of this world. What was that name, when translated from Latin into English?

DIFFICULT

25 - Who was the only Communist elected to Parliament. What was his ultimate fate in that chamber?
I forget his name, but he was represented Montreal's jewish ghetto and was elected in 1945. As a "Labour Progressive", the Communist party was actually illegal IIRC.

26 - What are all the different names used by the Tories in Canada over history? Include the branch of the party that the current Leader came from.
Conservatives, Liberal-Conservatives (splintered off the Liberals and allied to the Conservatives in the early decades, eventually merged in), National Governance (1940 only), Progressive Conservatives (from 45 on), Canadian Alliance (merger of the Reform Party and a minority of the PCs), Conservative Party of Canada (hostile takeover of remnant PCs by the Alliance)

27 - What is the nickname for the Liberal Party of Canada?
Grits

28 - Who was the first official leader of the merged Tories in 2003?
Not Steve Harper? Yeah, I suppose there must have been an interim leader as they then went on to choose Harper by letting the members vote.

29 - Where and how did the speaker of the house who caused the pipeline debate crisis die.
the what?

IMPOSSIBLE

30 - One of our Prime Ministers has a nickname which is the real last-name of a Prime Minister from another commonwealth country. What is this nickname?
?

31 - In Mount Royal, it was once said that what item, if painted red, could win election?
A broomstick? That'd be the standard saying.

32 - What was the residence of the "true" leader of the original Rhino Party?
no idea

BONUS

xx - Of all the people in the correct answers to this test, which single one is Teddy's fav politician of all time?
Probably not Louis Riel.

[Antonio the Sixth]

GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Canada? What Party is he from?

Stephen Harper, Conservative Party

2 - Name the two houses of the Canadian Parliament (the official English names)

The House of Commons, and the Senate

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition (official, not interim - bonus points if you can name both)

Jack Layton, NDP

4 - How many Provinces are in Canada (not including the 3 territories)

10

5 - Name the 4 parties that ran in over 90% of the ridings nation-wide, in all the elections since 2004.

Conservative Party
New Democratic Party
Liberal Party
Green Party ?

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he.

Paul Martin, Liberal



HISTORICAL

7 - The smallest province, Prince Edward Island, has a minimum number of seats it can elect to the House, written in law. What is this number?

4

8 - Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?

(forgot 1st name) McDonald

9 - Who was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister?

William Lyon McKenzie King ?

10 - In terms of the share of seats taken, which Prime Minister won the most seats, and, which party did he represent (official legal name of said party at time of election)

Honestly, no idea. The way you worded your question, though, makes me assume it was a Progressive Conservative. So I'll say Bryan Mulroney ?

11 - One Prime Minister was so popular that a special term was developed to describe his popularity. What is this term?

Trudeaumania Didn't last eternally, though...

12 - Who was the only non-Liberal Prime Minister to win the majority of Quebec seats two elections in a row?

Mulroney (Progressive Conservative)

13 - Which leader of the opposition is often called "The best Prime Minister we never had"

Dunno... Some NDPer ? What was the name of that guy in the Pearson years ? I don't remember...

14 - Who was the first Female Prime Minister?

Kim Campbell (Progressive Conservative)



PROVINCIAL

15 - Quebec. The election of which Premier, representing which Party, began "The Quiet Revolution"

Forgot his name. It was a Liberal, in the early 60s.

16 - Ontario. Which Premier of Ontario was in office when both the Toronto Subway, and Highway 401 were built.

No idea.

17 - Alberta. What was Premier William Aberhart's nickname?

No idea.

18 - Newfoundland. Who was the first Premier of the province?

No idea.

19 - Saskatchewan. Who was the province's first Socialist Premier?

He was the founder of the CCF, right ? Something Douglas, no ?

20 - Prince Edward Island. Which party won all the seats in a general election, and when did this occur?

Dunno.

21 - New Brunswick. Which party won the official opposition, beating the Tories, in 1991, and what was their main campaign plank.

The NDP ? No idea.

22 - Nova Scotia. Who is the current Premier, and which party is he from?

Dunno.

23 - Manitoba. Who is often called the "Father of Manitoba"

Dunno.

24 - British Columbia. One of this province's first Premiers, legally changed his name to something out of this world. What was that name, when translated from Latin into English?

Lulz, really ? No idea.



DIFFICULT

25 - Who was the only Communist elected to Parliament. What was his ultimate fate in that chamber?

Dunno.

26 - What are all the different names used by the Tories in Canada over history? Include the branch of the party that the current Leader came from.

Conservatives initially. Progressive Conservatives since the 1940s. In the 90s appeared the Reform Party, which then became the Canadian Alliance. The two merged in 2003
 to become again the Conservatives.

27 - What is the nickname for the Liberal Party of Canada?

The Grits.

28 - Who was the first official leader of the merged Tories in 2003?

Stephen Harper.

29 - Where and how did the speaker of the house who caused the pipeline debate crisis die.

Don't know.



IMPOSSIBLE

30 - One of our Prime Ministers has a nickname which is the real last-name of a Prime Minister from another commonwealth country. What is this nickname?

No idea.

31 - In Mount Royal, it was once said that what item, if painted red, could win election?

Dunno.

32 - What was the residence of the "true" leader of the original Rhino Party?

Dunno.


BONUS

xx - Of all the people in the correct answers to this test, which single one is Teddy's fav politician of all time?

Stephen Harper !

Nah, I've no idea.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I actually had a Canadian politics quiz typed up a few days ago, but I never got to post it. If Teddy doesn't mind I'd like to put it in this topic anyway.

By the way, Amor De Cosmos's name wasn't in actual Latin!

Go ahead, there can be more than one!

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

And for the record, I am a Riel fan, but he is just not my fav

Perhaps a clue is in the question itself, considering my non-political interests.

[Foucaulf]

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT CANADIAN POLITICS [AND HISTORY] EXPANSION PACK

This test is designed for Canadians. I'll be sending answers through PM.

INTERMEDIATE:

1. Seat allocation for Canada's Lower House is not solely based on population, but based foremost on two rules. Name them.

2. Who are the incumbent Premiers for the provinces of New Brunswick, Quebec and Alberta?

3. Name any one of the Lieutenant-Governors currently appointed.

4. Which politician was murdered by the FLQ, and what does the acronym stand for in English and/or French?

5. Name the first president of the New Democratic Party.

6. What was the King-Byng Affair? Apart from "King and Byng", which other hapless party leader was implicated in the event?

7. What was suggested in the Durham Report, published in 1838?

8. Name the two proportional voting systems put to referendum in Canada. You do not get half marks for naming just one.

9. What were the Pacific Scandal, the Chanak Crisis, the Gouzenko Affair, the Quiet Revolution and the Sponsorship Scandal?

10. Who were Louis Papineau, George-Étienne Cartier, Henri Bourassa, Robert Bourassa and Jacques Parizeau? Make sure each answer is distinct.

DIFFICULT:

1. Who were the Premiers of British Columbia and Newfoundland upon their joining of Confederation?

2. Who was the only federal Canadian politician to be assassinated?

3. Since its founding in 1905, how many times have the government of Alberta switched between parties?

4. The "Trois Colombes" is the nickname for a group of Quebec intellectuals. One member was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Name the other two.

5. The Lower House of the 16th Canadian Parliament was one of the most plural in history, featuring six parties with four or more seats. Two of them were the Liberals and the Conservatives. Name the other four.   

6. It is common knowledge that the Liberal Party is the oldest active party in Canada. Which active party is the second oldest?

7. What were Prime Minister Jean Chretien's "White Paper" and "Red Book"?

8. Apart from being political figures, what did Rosemary Brown, Elijah Harper and Pierre de Bané have in common?

9. Which Francophone Governor-General died on June 24, the day of Quebec's National Holiday (though he was born and died somewhere else)?

10. How many provincial parties with members in their respective parliaments do not have the words "Liberal", "Conservative" or "New Democratic" in their names?

11. Which political figure is credited with the paraphrase "an election is no time to discuss serious issues"?

12. Among all the provinces, which province had the shortest period between two elections post-Confederation?

UNFAIR:

There have been few referendums staged at the federal level. One of them were the referendums on the Charlottetown Accords, constitutional reforms spearheaded by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. One referendum was given to Quebec, and another to the rest of Canada. Provide the national results of the combined referendums to the nearest decimal point, in the format xx.x YES to xx.x NO.

[Хahar 🤔]

1. No province can have more Senators than members in the Commons, and no province can have fewer MPs than it did in some Parliament a couple decades ago. Is that what you mean?
2. New Brunswick is some Tory, but I don't think it's Bernard Lord anymore. Quebec is John Charest, another Tory. Alberta is a Tory whose name eludes me. Is it Stelmach?
3. John Crosbie
4. Some minister. FLQ stands for Quebec Liberation Front or something like that.
5. Tommy Douglas, unless president means something different from leader.
6. King wanted an election because he didn't have a majority, and Byng didn't give him that election. The Tory leader at the time was Arthur Meighen, I think.
7. Union of Upper and Lower Canada?
8. STV and MMP
9. The Pacific scandal had something to do with corruption in the construction of a transcontinental railroad; it brought down the Macdonald government. The Quiet Revolution was the liberalization of Quebec in the 1960s following the death of Duplessis. Don't know the rest.
10. Louis Papineau is the fellow after whom Justin Trudeau's riding is named. Robert Bourassa was a Liberal who was twice Premier of Quebec. Jacques Parizeau was Premier of Quebec and PQ leader in 1995.

1. Don't know
2. One of the Fathers of Confederation. Don't remember his name.
3. Three; it's gone Liberal to UFA to Socred to Tory.
4. Don't know
5. Progressive, UFA, UFO, Labour?
6. Communist
7. The Red Book was a catalog of Liberal policy published before the 1993 election. Not sure about the White Paper.
8. Opposition to Meech Lake?
9. Don't know
10. 6 (Yukon, Wildrose Alliance, SaskTories, PQ, ADQ, QS)
11. Don't know
12. Don't know

1. No, I will not.

[Hash]

INTERMEDIATE:

1. Seat allocation for Canada's Lower House is not solely based on population, but based foremost on two rules. Name them.
Quebec guaranteed 75 seats... and PEI guaranteed 4 seats??

2. Who are the incumbent Premiers for the provinces of New Brunswick, Quebec and Alberta?
David Alward
Jean Charest
Ed Stelmach

3. Name any one of the Lieutenant-Governors currently appointed.
David Onley I think is LG of Ontario. Some cripple.

4. Which politician was murdered by the FLQ, and what does the acronym stand for in English and/or French?
Pierre Laporte. Front de liberation du Quebec

5. Name the first president of the New Democratic Party.
Douglas?

6. What was the King-Byng Affair? Apart from "King and Byng", which other hapless party leader was implicated in the event?
Meighen

7. What was suggested in the Durham Report, published in 1838?
Assimilating French-Canadians, merging UC+LC

8. Name the two proportional voting systems put to referendum in Canada. You do not get half marks for naming just one.
MMP (ON), STV (BC)

9. What were the Pacific Scandal, the Chanak Crisis, the Gouzenko Affair, the Quiet Revolution and the Sponsorship Scandal?
Pacific Scandal was in the 1870s, the Conservative government was in cahoots with friendly railway companies who paid them or something. Don't recall details, but it was some corrupt Conservatives and related to railways in the west
Chanak Crisis: in 1921 or so, Britain demanded Canada send troops to Chanak where British troops were surrounded by Ataturk's forces. Mackenzie King said he'd ask Parliament first and let it die. one of the founding events of Canadian nationalist
Gouzenko Affair: Soviet guy at the USSR's embassy, Igor Gouzenko, defected with state secrets
Quiet Revolution: 1960s in Quebec, reforms of society, Church's power almost disappeared overnight, liberalization of QC, rise of nationalism and left-wing QC
sponsorship scandal: Liberal government gave lots of money to crooks and frauds. For a change, the big guy in charge was an Italian. They don't even try to act honest those people.

10. Who were Louis Papineau, George-Étienne Cartier, Henri Bourassa, Robert Bourassa and Jacques Parizeau? Make sure each answer is distinct.
Papineau: leader of the rouges and LC Patriotes in 1837
Cartier: MacDonald's QC lieutenant, railway guy, father of Confederation
Bourassa I: founder of Le Devoir, prominent 'Canadien' nationalist opposed Boer War etc.
Bourassa II: Liberal premier of QC in the 70s and late 80s, including during FLQ crisis. Responsible for building the Baie James and all
Parizeau: PQ premier of QC 1994-1996, Levesque's finance minister, pushed the YES vote in 1995 referendum. Resigned after referendum defeat and 'l'argent et le vote ethnique' remarks.

DIFFICULT:

1. Who were the Premiers of British Columbia and Newfoundland upon their joining of Confederation?
Joey Smallwood for Nfld, can't remember for BC

2. Who was the only federal Canadian politician to be assassinated?
Thomas d'Arcy McGee, killed in Ottawa by the Fenians.

3. Since its founding in 1905, how many times have the government of Alberta switched between parties?
1919 to UFA
1935 to SoCred
1976? to PCs
so three times

4. The "Trois Colombes" is the nickname for a group of Quebec intellectuals. One member was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Name the other two.
?

5. The Lower House of the 16th Canadian Parliament was one of the most plural in history, featuring six parties with four or more seats. Two of them were the Liberals and the Conservatives. Name the other four.
Progressives
UFA
Labour?
Indies/Liberal-Progressives/UFO?

6. It is common knowledge that the Liberal Party is the oldest active party in Canada. Which active party is the second oldest?
Communist Party

7. What were Prime Minister Jean Chretien's "White Paper" and "Red Book"?
White Paper was when Chretien was aboriginal affairs minister or something and dealt with aboriginal rights. It's premise was that natives should be integrated as equal citizens or something, which they didn't want.
Red Book was the Liberal platform in 1993

8. Apart from being political figures, what did Rosemary Brown, Elijah Harper and Pierre de Bané have in common?
Brown was a black and Harper was a native, so presumably first minorities elected to legislatures?

9. Which Francophone Governor-General died on June 24, the day of Quebec's National Holiday (though he was born and died somewhere else)?
LeBlanc?

10. How many provincial parties with members in their respective parliaments do not have the words "Liberal", "Conservative" or "New Democratic" in their names?
PQ, ADQ, SaskParty, Wildrose, Alberta Party, Yukon Party. I count 6.

11. Which political figure is credited with the paraphrase "an election is no time to discuss serious issues"?
Campbell?

12. Among all the provinces, which province had the shortest period between two elections post-Confederation?
who knows? QC 1935-1936?

UNFAIR:

There have been few referendums staged at the federal level. One of them were the referendums on the Charlottetown Accords, constitutional reforms spearheaded by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. One referendum was given to Quebec, and another to the rest of Canada. Provide the national results of the combined referendums to the nearest decimal point, in the format xx.x YES to xx.x NO.
no clue

[MaxQue]

Intermediate:

1. The number of MPs of a provinces can't be lower than its number of senators.
   No province can have less MPs than it had before a year (1974?).

2. NB: David Alward, PC.
    Qc: Jean Familia Charest, Liberal, MNA for Sherbrooke.
    AB: Ed Stelmack, PC.

3. John Crosbie? Or he left?

4. Pierre Laporte, Liberal, Vice-PM and Work Minister. The main bridge across the St. Lawrence in Québec City has its name. FLQ means "Front de Libération du Québec".

5. The logic means Tommy Douglas to me (but I have Lewis in my head, too)

6. If I remember well, PM WLM King wanted to call early elections and went to see Byng, which was the GG then, as modern Prime Ministers do. The affair was created when he refused to dissolve Parliament and appointed Arthur Meighen, the Conservative leader as the new PM.

7. To assimilate the French population of Lower Canada, which "had no culture" by merging them with Upper Canada, among other sillyness. Obviously, the Quebec history course aren't positive at all about that "report" (in my opinion, that is only the ancestor of the rag "The Suburban".)

8. MMP and I think STV (in BC, towards the 50's)

9. I don't know Chanak and Gouzenko.
So, the Pacific scandal is a scandal about the Conservative Party in power which took bribes from the companies involved in the bidding for the contract to build the railroad linking BC and Eastern Canada.
Quiet Revolution. I could say long about it, but roughly it is a movement which involved all the Québec society, which caused, among things, the rise of independantism, the decline of the Catholic church, the foundation of the modern education and health systems of Quebec and the birth of the State-Providence. A wide liberalisation of the very conservative Québec society, in short.
Sponsorship Scandal. Jean Chrétien and his corrupt liberal friends (Hi, Alfonso!), after the narrow defeat of the NO in the 1995 Québec Independance referendum, decided to launch a program of visibility of the Canadian government in public events in Québec. That involved giving the contracts to do so to the donators of the party and overinflating the amounts given. Paying 5 figures amounts for putting Canada's logo on golf balls or on walls. Paying 5 figures amounts for three reports, which were exactly the same. Too bad, real crooks are still free.

10. Louis-Joseph Papineau was a leader of the Patriot Party which wanted to put the power in the hands of the French population (which was the rich French people in cities, like him, not the peasants in rural areas. A bit like French Revolution.) He didn't approved armed struggle and went things got hard for him, he flew in the US.
George-Étienne Cartier was some United-Canada co-PM, representing the Canada East. He was also one of the Fathers of the Confederation which, more or less, convinced Québec than the Confederation was the solution.
Henri Bourassa was the founder of the newspaper "Le Devoir" and the father of Québec nationalism. He also strongly supported Canadian nationalism against the imperialism of United Kingdom.
Robert Bourassa was a Quebec PM 1970-1976 and 1985-1993. Liberal. Among his realisations, there is the Baie James hydroelectrical project and an hunt to catch welfare frauders.
Jacques Pariseau is a moron was the Québec Prime Minister 1994-1995. PQ. He mainly prepared the 1995 independance referendum and said than the refedendum was lost because of "ethnic votes and money". He resigned the day after the referendum. Now, he annoys PQ by giving them "advise" in the medias and was called to help by Duceppe to save the failing campaign of Bloc in 2011.

Difficult:

1. Thompson? (the predecessor of the Strange Guy) and Joey Smallwood, Liberal.

2. D'Arcy McGee (I think his first name is Thomas and he has a provincial riding wearing his name in an uber-English part of Montréal. He was killed by the Fenians, which were against Confederation, because he was big supporter of the Confederation).

3.3. Only 4 parties. Once a party lost power, it never gained it back. Liberals where beated by UFA, which were deafeated by Social Credit (in 1935), which had the same fate, beated by the PCs in 1979.

4. Jean Marchand and a guy which I forgot the name.

5. Hard. The year would have helped. I'll suppose it is the election nea WWII and try CCF, Social Credit, Bloc populaire canadien and Labour Progressive Party (i.e. banned Communist Party.)

6. No idea.

7. The Red Book was the Liberal platform. The White Paper was a report on something related to justice than he wrote when he was Justice Minister, I suppose.

8. Elijah Harper was Cree and Pierre De Bané was Lebanese. So, I suppose than they were all the first person of their ethnicity elected as an MP.

9. Georges Vanier? Roméo Leblanc, Jeanne Sauvé and Michaelle Jean are still alive.

10. 5 (6 counting Yukon, which isn't a province) (I see ADQ, PQ, QS, SP and WA).

11. It sounds dumb, it must be Chrétien, he loves to say nonsence.

12. Nova Scotia?

Unfair:
Difficult question. I'll try 44.6 to 55.4.

[Platypus]

GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Canada? What Party is he from?

Stephen Harper, Conservative.

2 - Name the two houses of the Canadian Parliament (the official English names)

House of...Commons? & Senate.

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition (official, not interim - bonus points if you can name both)

Jack Layton

4 - How many Provinces are in Canada (not including the 3 territories)

Ten

5 - Name the 4 parties that ran in over 90% of the ridings nation-wide, in all the elections since 2004.

Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, ...Greens?

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he.

Paul Martin, Liberal.

HISTORICAL

7 - The smallest province, Prince Edward Island, has a minimum number of seats it can elect to the House, written in law. What is this number?

Four.

8 - Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?

MacKenzie

9 - Who was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister?

Diefenbacker?

10 - In terms of the share of seats taken, which Prime Minister won the most seats, and, which party did he represent (official legal name of said party at time of election)

Jean Chretien, Parti Liberal du Canada?

11 - One Prime Minister was so popular that a special term was developed to describe his popularity. What is this term?

Pierre Trudeau

12 - Who was the only non-Liberal Prime Minister to win the majority of Quebec seats two elections in a row?

Mulroney

13 - Which leader of the opposition is often called "The best Prime Minister we never had"

...

14 - Who was the first Female Prime Minister?

Kim Campbell

PROVINCIAL (Note that you must answer 6 of these, but, you pick which 6!)

15 - Quebec. The election of which Premier, representing which Party, began "The Quiet Revolution"

16 - Ontario. Which Premier of Ontario was in office when both the Toronto Subway, and Highway 401 were built.

17 - Alberta. What was Premier William Aberhart's nickname?

18 - Newfoundland. Who was the first Premier of the province?

19 - Saskatchewan. Who was the province's first Socialist Premier?

20 - Prince Edward Island. Which party won all the seats in a general election, and when did this occur?
PCP, 1999?

21 - New Brunswick. Which party won the official opposition, beating the Tories, in 1991, and what was their main campaign plank.

NDP

22 - Nova Scotia. Who is the current Premier, and which party is he from?

NDP

23 - Manitoba. Who is often called the "Father of Manitoba"

24 - British Columbia. One of this province's first Premiers, legally changed his name to something out of this world. What was that name, when translated from Latin into English?



DIFFICULT

25 - Who was the only Communist elected to Parliament. What was his ultimate fate in that chamber?

26 - What are all the different names used by the Tories in Canada over history? Include the branch of the party that the current Leader came from.

27 - What is the nickname for the Liberal Party of Canada?

Grits

28 - Who was the first official leader of the merged Tories in 2003?

29 - Where and how did the speaker of the house who caused the pipeline debate crisis die.



IMPOSSIBLE

30 - One of our Prime Ministers has a nickname which is the real last-name of a Prime Minister from another commonwealth country. What is this nickname?

Key?

31 - In Mount Royal, it was once said that what item, if painted red, could win election?

32 - What was the residence of the "true" leader of the original Rhino Party?

Eh? Nunavut

BONUS

xx - Of all the people in the correct answers to this test, which single one is Teddy's fav politician of all time?

Mulroney

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I'll be accepting Jack Layton as an answer to "Which leader of the opposition is often called "The best Prime Minister we never had""*

Also, I'm surprised nobody else has heard of the other Muldoon


due to:
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3190 results for Stanfield

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3130 results for Layton

compare to:
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102 for tommy (douglas shows a lot of brits)

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142 broadbent

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588 for Dion (god)

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257 for iggy

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205 preston manning

you can search for anyone else you think would qualify. The numbers speak for themselves. And Layton is trending up.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Holy
Stanfield, no caps, no we. - 8070 results
Layton, no caps, no we. - 18010 results