10.D1.5

describe some key political developments and/or government policies in Canada during this period (e.g., government responses to the Red Scare/Cold War; Newfoundland’s joining Confederation; social welfare legislation; the establishment of the Massey Commission or the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; the founding of the New Democratic Party; revisions to the Immigration Act; the decision to invoke the War Measures Act in 1970; the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; the establishment of Environment Canada), and assess their significance for different non-Indigenous groups in Canada