What service-sector employment share is quoted in Discover Canada?
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Citizenship Test: Canada's economy
Canada as a trading nation, free trade with the United States and Mexico, the three main types of industries (service, manufacturing, natural resources) and the Canada–U.S. trading relationship.
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Study reference: Discover Canada (IRCC online edition, 2026), Ch. 9 Canada's Economy — A trading nation, Three main types of industries
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What service-sector employment share is quoted in Discover Canada?
- About 25%
- Less than 10%
- About 50%
- More than 75%
Which country joined Canada and the United States in 1994 in the North American Free Trade Agreement?
- Cuba
- Japan
- Mexico
- The United Kingdom
How does Discover Canada rank the size of Canada's economy?
- The largest in the world
- Smaller than most in Europe
- Among the ten largest in the world
- Among the fifty largest
A large share of Canada's exports are what kind of goods?
- Natural resource commodities
- Handmade crafts
- Video games and films
- Imported luxury goods
Making aerospace technology and automobiles is part of which type of industry?
- Natural resources industries
- Service industries
- Tourism industries
- Manufacturing industries
What is the Canada–U.S. border traditionally called?
- The Peace Arch line
- The great northern frontier of the Americas
- The world's longest undefended border
- The 49th parallel wall
What share of exports destined for the United States does Discover Canada quote?
- About one-third
- Over three-quarters
- About one-tenth
- About half
Which country is Canada's largest trading partner?
- The United States
- China
- Mexico
- The United Kingdom
Forestry, fishing, mining and energy belong to which type of industry?
- Natural resources industries
- Financial industries
- Service industries
- Manufacturing industries
Which three broad industry groups does Discover Canada use to describe the economy?
- Technology, retail and defence
- Mining, fishing and forestry
- Service, manufacturing, natural resources
- Banking, farming and international tourism
Banking, tourism and health care are examples of which type of industry?
- Primary industries
- Natural resources industries
- Service industries
- Manufacturing industries
What does the Peace Arch at Blaine, Washington, symbolize?
- The close ties between Canada and the U.S.
- Canada becoming a republic
- The start of the fur trade
- Canada’s victory at Vimy Ridge in the First World War
In what year did the original Canada–U.S. Free Trade Agreement enter into force?
- 1994
- 1965
- 1989
- 2008
Canada's economy: key rules to remember
Our summary of what the official handbook says on this topic, in our own words. Read it before or after the practice questions above, then check the original chapter. Read the official chapter ↗
A trading nation
- Canada has always been a trading nation; commerce is the engine of growth; trade is needed to keep our standard of living.
- The Canada–U.S. Free Trade Agreement entered into force in 1989. NAFTA followed in 1994 with Mexico and was replaced by CUSMA on July 1, 2020.
- Canada has one of the ten largest economies in the world.
Three main types of industries
- Discover Canada quotes more than 75% of working Canadians in service industries. This is the guide’s published figure, not a newly calculated current employment share.
- Manufacturing industries: paper, high-tech equipment, aerospace, automobiles, machinery, food, clothing. Largest international trading partner: the United States.
- Natural resources industries: forestry, fishing, agriculture, mining, energy; a large share of exports are natural resource commodities.
Canada and the United States
- The United States is Canada’s largest trading partner in goods and services. This does not mean Canada must also be the United States’ largest partner; rankings differ by country and measure.
- Exports include energy, industrial goods, machinery, automotive, agricultural, fishing and forestry products and consumer goods.
- The border is traditionally called "the world's longest undefended border".
- Peace Arch at Blaine, Washington: inscribed "children of a common mother" and "brethren dwelling together in unity".
Other topics
- Rights and freedomsWhere Canadian rights come from: Magna Carta, English common law and the French civil code, the four fundamental freedoms, habeas corpus, the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms, mobility, Aboriginal and language rights, multiculturalism and the equality of women and men.
- Citizenship responsibilities and the OathThe responsibilities that come with citizenship (obeying the law, jury duty, voting, helping others, protecting heritage and environment), defending Canada, the Oath of Citizenship, and what happens at the citizenship ceremony.
- Who we are: founding peoples and diversityThe three founding peoples, First Nations, Inuit and Métis, residential schools, English and French Canada, Acadians and Quebecers, and the diversity of languages, religions and origins in Canada today.
- History: first peoples to 1791Aboriginal ways of life, the Vikings, John Cabot and Jacques Cartier, Champlain and New France, the fur trade and the Hudson's Bay Company, the Plains of Abraham, the Quebec Act, the Loyalists and the first elected assemblies.
- History: 1791 to ConfederationThe abolition of slavery, the early economy, the War of 1812, the Rebellions of 1837–38, responsible government, the Fathers of Confederation and the birth of the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.
- History: the Dominion and the World WarsExpansion of the Dominion, Sir John A. Macdonald, Louis Riel and the Métis, the North West Mounted Police, the Canadian Pacific Railway, western settlement, the First World War, women's right to vote, the Depression and the Second World War.
- Modern Canada since 1945Postwar prosperity and social programs, NATO, NORAD and the United Nations, the Quiet Revolution, official languages and the Quebec referendums, the extension of the vote, refugees and multiculturalism.
- Arts, sports, science and inventionsCanadian writers, painters and filmmakers, sports heroes such as Terry Fox and Wayne Gretzky, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, and great Canadian discoveries and inventions from insulin to the Canadarm.
- How Canadians govern themselvesCanada as a federal state, a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy: federal and provincial powers, the three parts of Parliament, how a bill becomes law, the Sovereign, the Governor General, Lieutenant Governors, Premiers and Commissioners.
- Federal elections and votingWhen federal elections are held, electoral districts and candidates, who may vote, the voters' list and voter information card, the secret ballot, majority and minority government, the Cabinet and opposition, voting procedures and municipal government.
- The justice systemDue process and the presumption of innocence, the rule of law, the Supreme Court and other courts, the RCMP and provincial and municipal police, questioning police conduct, lawyers and legal aid.
- Canadian symbolsThe Crown, the national flag and the Red Ensign, the maple leaf, the fleur-de-lys, the coat of arms and motto, the Parliament Buildings, national sports, the beaver, the official languages and the national and royal anthems.
- Honours and national holidaysThe Order of Canada, the Victoria Cross and its Canadian recipients, and the dates of national public holidays and other important days such as Vimy Day, Canada Day and Remembrance Day.
- Regions: geography, the capital and Atlantic CanadaCanada's size, oceans and five regions, provinces, territories and capital cities, Ottawa as the national capital, and the four Atlantic provinces.
- Regions: Central Canada, the Prairies, the West Coast and the NorthQuebec and Ontario, the Great Lakes, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, with their resources, cities and landmarks.