Posted AT 4:01 AM EDT on 29/06/07
Canadians' self-knowledge dismal, poll shows
Ten years into his mission to get Canadians to know more about their country, Rudyard Griffiths is running into a wall.A new poll by the Dominion Institute shows that Canadians are faring dramatically worse today than they did in 1997 in a test of their knowledge of history, politics, culture and geography.
About 60 per cent would fail today a test similar to the one that immigrants take to become Canadian citizens.
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