Over half of Cdns would flunk citizenship test: poll
TORONTO (CP) - A poll released just days before Canada Day suggests more than half of all Canadians don't know enough about their own country to pass a citizenship test.
The survey commissioned by the Dominion Institute found 60 per cent of Canadians don't have the basic knowledge required to pass a test similar to the one newcomers must take to become citizens.
Forty-five per cent of those polled ten years ago failed an identical test.
While 96 per cent of Canadians correctly identified the national anthem as "O Canada," just six in ten of them could recall its first two lines.
Only four per cent could name four federal political parties represented in the House of Commons, while just one-third could identify the number of Canadian provinces and territories.
The poll was conducted by Ipsos Reid and the results are considered accurate to within +3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/06/29/4300486-cp.html
TORONTO (CP) - A poll released just days before Canada Day suggests more than half of all Canadians don't know enough about their own country to pass a citizenship test.
The survey commissioned by the Dominion Institute found 60 per cent of Canadians don't have the basic knowledge required to pass a test similar to the one newcomers must take to become citizens.
Forty-five per cent of those polled ten years ago failed an identical test.
While 96 per cent of Canadians correctly identified the national anthem as "O Canada," just six in ten of them could recall its first two lines.
Only four per cent could name four federal political parties represented in the House of Commons, while just one-third could identify the number of Canadian provinces and territories.
The poll was conducted by Ipsos Reid and the results are considered accurate to within +3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/06/29/4300486-cp.html
