Ottawa, March 3, 2011 – Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney today launched a fun and educational Facebook application that tests your knowledge of Canada's history, values, symbols and political institutions.
The quiz can also be downloaded to mobile devices like iPhone, Blackberry and Android. The 20 questions are randomly selected from a bank of 122 questions, allowing the quiz to be played more than once.
The initiative is part of an on-line resource called "A Fun Path to Learning" that was launched in April 2010 by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The educational tool draws from material in the popular new citizenship study guide Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship and aims to help students from grades five to 12 learn about Canada's history and political institutions through games and activities.
The "How Canadian Are You, Eh?" application is a cross platform application that can be found within Facebook, at the iTunes app store, in the Blackberry app world, and in the Android marketplace. Links to the app can be found at www.citizenship.gc.ca/youth.
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Alykhan Velshi
Minister's Office
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Media Relations
Communications Branch
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
613-952-1650
CIC-Media-Relations@cic.gc.ca
