W11 TEST DEFENITIONS
inflation
the rise of prices for goods and services that increases the cost of living and triggers demand for higher wages
communism
a social and economic theory that property, production, and distribution of goods and services should be owned by the public, and the labour force organized for the benefit of all members of society
collective bargaining
negotiation of a contract between unions and management reguarding such things as wages and working conditions
red scare
the fear that communism would spread to canada
group of seven
group of canadian landscape painters in the 1920s
enfranchisement
historically, the process by which an aboriginal person lost his or her indian status and became a canadian citizen
self-determination
the freedom for a group to form its own government
indian act
an act created to regulate the lives of the first nations of canada
regionalism
a concern for the affairs of ones own region over those of ones country
minority government
a government in which the ruling party has less then half the total number of seats in the legislature
old age pension act
an act passed in 1927 to provide social assistance to people over 70
balfour report
the conclusions of the 1926 imperial conference that acknowledged canada as an autonomous community within the british empire
statute of westminister
the law that changed the british empire into the british commonwealth all commonwealth countries to be considered equal in status with britian and able to make their own laws
branch plants
factories, offices, or other operations set up in canada but owned or controlled by U.S. or other foreign conpanies