The House

The Answers!

No cheating! The answers to our 2017 House Quiz are here.
Fireworks light up the sky behind the Peace Tower during a New Year's Eve celebration on Parliament Hill, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016 in Ottawa. Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

1a. François-Philippe Champagne, Ahmed Hussen and Karina Gould

1b. MaryAnn Mihychuk

2. The uncompleted portion of the Dakota Access pipeline.

3.   #WelcomeToCanada

4. Ranked ballot system

5. Women in the workforce (two countries launch a new task force called the United States Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders-Female Entrepreneurs)

6. Michael Ferguson says it will take years and cost far more than the allotted $540 million, and could cost as much as a similar Australian government pay system problem that cost $1.2 billion and took over 7 years to fix.

7. Kim Campbell, the 19th Prime Minister of Canada spoke to young women from all of Canada's 338 ridings to mark International Women's Day.

8. $28.5 billion

-No Netflix tax in that budget, but there's a measure to start collecting GST on what popular service?

Answer: Uber

-New sin taxes of one cent more on a bottle of wine, and how many cents on a 24 case of beer?

Answer: 5 cents

-The 2017 budget also announced the end of what formerly popular investment instrument. What was it?

Answer: Canada Savings Bonds

9. Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, Mauril Belanger, Stephane Dion, and John McCallum.

9b. ona Fortier, Bob Benzen, Stephanie Kusie, Mary Ng, and Emmanuella Lambropoulos.

10. 3

11. 13

Bonus point if you can tell me who finished last.

Answer: Deepak Obhrai with less than ½ a percent.

12. The Constitution

13. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland outlined the government's approach to foreign affairs.

14. Former Ontario Liberal MPP, Madeleine Meilleur

15. Alberta

16. $10.5 million

17. Marilyn Poitras

18. Roberta Bondar

19. Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed and Métis National Council President Clément Chartier

20. The United Conservative Party

21. The Olympic Stadium

22. The Saskatchewan Party

Bonus point if you can tell me who will become the longest serving premier once Wall steps down.

Answer: Bob McLeod, Premier for the North West Territories (been premier for more than 6 years)

23. Remove Sir John A. Macdonald's name from schools in the province -- because of Macdonald's role as the "architect of genocide against Indigenous Peoples."    

24. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

25. $500-million pledge by Netflix to fund Canadian productions over five years and to build a permanent production presence in Canada

26. Charlie Angus

27. TransCanada announced it was abandoning the Energy East pipeline project.

28.  Guidelines to business owners that could pave the way for new taxes on merchandise purchased with an employee discount.

29. Valérie Plante.

30. Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

31. 100-thousand

32. 75% for the provinces, 25% for the federal government.

33. Australia

34. Justin Trudeau vacation on the Aga Khan's private island last Christmas, as well as the finance minister's role in tabling new pension legislation that could impact his family's company.

35. Antonio Lamer