Some things the study guide states are no longer true, and some depend on where you live. Neither kind is used in a scored question here — instead, both readings are shown side by side, with the date we last checked.
Why these are separate
A question keyed to the guide’s text would teach you something false. One keyed to today’s reality would contradict the guide the test is drawn from. And a question about your own riding has no single answer. So these are facts to check, not questions to score.
What to do about it
Learn the role rather than the name — what the Sovereign does, what a member of Parliament does. Then check the current name before your test using the links here.
Who is Canada’s Sovereign?
Government
The official guide says
The Canadian Symbols chapter still reads as it did years ago: it says Queen Elizabeth II has been Queen of Canada since 1952 and writes about her Diamond Jubilee — 60 years as Sovereign — in the present tense.
The same guide contradicts itself. Its Oath of Citizenship chapter has been rewritten, and the oath you will actually swear is to His Majesty King Charles the Third, King of Canada. The oath is the official wording, so that is the one to trust.
A photo caption in the guide names David Johnston as the 28th Governor General since Confederation. The guide also explains the role: the Sovereign appoints the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister, usually for five years.
Several people have held the office since that caption was written. This site does not print a name here, because whoever we named would be wrong soon enough — look it up instead. What the test can fairly ask is the role, not the name.
How to check it yourself
The Governor General’s official site names the current officeholder on its front page.
The guide never names a Prime Minister as current. Its study pages leave a blank for you to fill in — “The Head of Government, the Prime Minister, is…” — which is the guide telling you this is something to look up rather than memorise from it.
That number is no longer current: the map is redrawn after each census, and seats have been added since the guide was written. Elections Canada publishes the current count. What has not changed is the rule worth learning — one member of Parliament is elected per electoral district.
How to check it yourself
Elections Canada publishes the current list of electoral districts.
The group now meets without Russia and is referred to as the G7. The durable fact is that Canada belongs to the group of leading industrialized economies.
How to check it yourself
Canada’s official international pages describe its current membership of the group.
Is NAFTA still Canada’s trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico?
Economy
The official guide says
The guide says Canada enacted free trade with the United States in 1988 and that Mexico became a partner in 1994 in the broader North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
NAFTA has been replaced by a newer Canada–United States–Mexico agreement. The dates in the guide are history and remain correct as history; the name of the agreement in force today is not.
How to check it yourself
Global Affairs Canada publishes the trade agreements currently in force.
The name follows the Sovereign’s title, so courts with this name are renamed when the Sovereign changes. The structure the guide describes — an appeal court and a trial court in most provinces — is what matters and has not changed.
How to check it yourself
Your province’s courts publish their own current names.
Who is my member of Parliament, and what is my riding?
GovernmentDepends on where you live
The official guide says
The guide asks this as a study question and leaves blanks for you to fill in: “My Member of Parliament (MP) in Ottawa is…” and “My federal electoral district is called…”.
There is no single answer — it depends on your address, and it changes at every election. Look up your own before the test; this is one the test really can ask.
How to check it yourself
The House of Commons website finds your MP and riding from your postal code.
Unlike the others on this page, this one has a fixed answer — it just depends on where you live. The full list of provinces, territories and capitals is in the geography chapter of this site, and those are scored questions here.
How to check it yourself
See the provinces and capitals table in the geography chapter.