Most Canadians would fail own citizenship test

[Romanowski]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...ORANCE-ODD.xml

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Most Canadians know so little about their own country that they would flunk the basic test that new
immigrants are required to take before becoming citizens, according to a poll released on Friday.
The Ipsos-Reid survey showed that 60 percent of Canadians would fail the test. A similar poll done in 1997 showed a failure rate of 45 percent.
"Canadians appear to be losing knowledge when it comes to the most basic questions about Canadian history, politics, culture and geography ... (they) performed abysmally on some questions," the firm said in a statement.


Only 4 percent knew the three requirements a citizen had to
meet to be able to vote while only a third could correctly identify the number of provinces and territories. Just 8 percent knew that Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.
The survey was carried out for the Dominion Institute, which aims to boost knowledge of Canadian history and values. It said all high school students should have to pass a special citizenship exam before they can graduate.
"It is frankly disheartening to see the lack of progress made by our group and the countless other organizations working
to improve civic literary of Canadians over the last 10 years," said institute co-founder Rudyard Griffiths.
The Ipsos-Reid survey of 1,005 adults was conducted between
June 5 and 7 and is considered to be accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
© Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved.

[dhunter]

same could be said for the US

[cptkirk321]

I think that is also be the case in the US as well. I am sure I saw something very similar to a huge number of Americans would also fail the test to become a US citizen a few years ago.

[dave nz]

Entertaining seeing the friction between the US and Canadians here haha

Something I can relate to, pretty similar between NZ and Australia.

I actually heard this story on the news here today.

[Romanowski]

of course it could be said for the US

but we already knew that

[revnecro1273]

Originally Posted by dhunter

same could be said for the US

was going to say the same thing...hell...i saw a survey a few years back and one of the questions showed that more than 50 percent of the people surveyed didnt even know the current president of usa

[domafia]

60% of the time, it works every time.

[dave nz]

80% of stats are inaccurate, 40% of people know that.

[T100]

LOL, back atcha Romo

no cheatin

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19552808/


ever watch jaywalking on Leno, pretty funny

[Ron Mexico]

Originally Posted by T100

LOL, back atcha Romo

no cheatin

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19552808/


ever watch jaywalking on Leno, pretty funny

I got 80%

That is a hard test