Weekly Quiz: Old Auteurs, Opposing Immigration, and the Odds of a Recession

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const title = "Old Auteurs, Opposing Immigration, and the Odds of a Recession"; const date = "August 09, 2025"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_ImmigrantRacism_AUG25-1536x1024.jpg", title: "When Immigrants Oppose Immigration", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/when-immigrants-oppose-immigration/", question: "For some immigrants, political affiliation is about survival—a way to fit in by aligning with whiteness, distancing oneself from other immigrant groups, and often voting conservative. This is especially clear in Hindu nationalist groups’ increasing affinity with right-wing political parties. What do scholars refer to this dynamic as?", options: [ "Strategic Assimilation", "Ethnic Alignment Politics", "Post-immigration Conservatism", "Populist Paradox", ], answer: "Populist Paradox", correct: "While a growing faction of Hindu immigrants are using Conservative votership as a means of aligning with the “community of value”—or white, wealthy native citizens—right-wing leaders like Pierre Poilievre and Maxime Bernier have in turn courted the same demographic to clutch on to power. The dynamic has resulted in a mutual friendship of convenience—or what some scholars call the “populist paradox.” In a late 2024 post, Bernier lauded one such Hindu nationalist group for its beliefs around ending “mass immigration” and that “immigrants should integrate into Canadian society rather than live in ethnic ghettos.” Poilievre, too, has pandered to Hindu nationalists—even as nationalist sentiment in India caused an increase in brazen attacks against minorities, particularly Muslims. In a 2024 statement, he said: “May the Maple Leaf and the Tiranga [India’s tricolour flag] forever fly united in celebration of our freedom and our democracies.” A 2024 poll by Angus Reid shows that the Conservative Party now holds the support of 53 percent of Hindus in Canada.", incorrect: "While a growing faction of Hindu immigrants are using Conservative votership as a means of aligning with the “community of value”—or white, wealthy native citizens—right-wing leaders like Pierre Poilievre and Maxime Bernier have in turn courted the same demographic to clutch on to power. The dynamic has resulted in a mutual friendship of convenience—or what some scholars call the “populist paradox.” In a late 2024 post, Bernier lauded one such Hindu nationalist group for its beliefs around ending “mass immigration” and that “immigrants should integrate into Canadian society rather than live in ethnic ghettos.” Poilievre, too, has pandered to Hindu nationalists—even as nationalist sentiment in India caused an increase in brazen attacks against minorities, particularly Muslims. In a 2024 statement, he said: “May the Maple Leaf and the Tiranga [India’s tricolour flag] forever fly united in celebration of our freedom and our democracies.” A 2024 poll by Angus Reid shows that the Conservative Party now holds the support of 53 percent of Hindus in Canada.", }, { title: "Fresh Lettuce in the Yukon? Believe It", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/fresh-lettuce-in-the-yukon-believe-it/", question: "Al and Cathy Stannard are just two of the local farmers helping to boost food security in the Yukon. But government policies have been stunting their growth. Al says one way the government can help is to buy locally. Between 2021 and 2024, the territory spent only $124,00 on local goods, as opposed to approximately how much on food from global distributor Sysco?", options: [ "1.3 Million", "4.4 Million", "6.7 Million", "9.6 Million", ], answer: "9.6 Million", correct: "According to the CBC, between 2021 and 2024, the territory of Yukon spent more than $9.6 million on food from global distributor Sysco and just $124,000 on goods grown in the Yukon. But local farmer Al Stannard says the Yukon government should help farmers by buying locally for public facilities such as schools, seniors’ homes, or even the Whitehorse jail. For farmers like the Stannards, that gap isn’t just a missed economic opportunity. It’s a signal of how far local agriculture still has to go to be truly valued.", incorrect: "According to the CBC, between 2021 and 2024, the territory of Yukon spent more than $9.6 million on food from global distributor Sysco and just $124,000 on goods grown in the Yukon. But local farmer Al Stannard says the Yukon government should help farmers by buying locally for public facilities such as schools, seniors’ homes, or even the Whitehorse jail. For farmers like the Stannards, that gap isn’t just a missed economic opportunity. It’s a signal of how far local agriculture still has to go to be truly valued.", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Chan_SteelTariffs-1800-1536x1024.jpg", title: "Why Trump’s Steel Tariffs Could Tip Canada into a Recession", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/the-steel-tariffs-doubled-so-did-the-odds-of-a-recession/", question: "Steel and aluminum tariffs are back—having doubled from 25 percent to 50 percent in June—and once again, they’re rattling Canadian companies. Pascal Chan, leading policy expert at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, says there are grave after-effects of these tariffs on our steel and aluminum industries. Which Canadian city known for aluminum production will likely be hit the hardest?", options: [ "Saguenay, Quebec", "Kitimat, British Columbia", "Hamilton, Ontario", "Sept-Îles, Quebec", ], answer: "Saguenay, Quebec", correct: "When it comes to aluminum, for instance, Chan says the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region is one of the most affected, because it’s responsible for roughly one-third of Canada’s aluminum production, and around 85 percent of that is exported to the US, largely to serve the auto sector and related production facilities. Then right behind that, at eighth, you’ve got Hamilton, or Steel City. There’s also a domino effect, such as layoffs, through all levels of the economy and downstream impacts in sectors like housing, automotive, manufacturing, and defence.", incorrect: "When it comes to aluminum, for instance, Chan says the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region is one of the most affected, because it’s responsible for roughly one-third of Canada’s aluminum production, and around 85 percent of that is exported to the US, largely to serve the auto sector and related production facilities. Then right behind that, at eighth, you’ve got Hamilton, or Steel City. There’s also a domino effect, such as layoffs, through all levels of the economy and downstream impacts in sectors like housing, automotive, manufacturing, and defence.", }, { title: "Cinema May Be Dying but the Old Auteurs Still Have Plenty to Say", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/cinema-may-be-dying-but-the-old-auteurs-still-have-plenty-to-say/", question: "The artists who most visibly defined cinema—predominantly white and male—are either dead or not far from it. Now as cinema exits the theatre and enters the retirement home, “late style” (films created by filmmakers in the later stages of their careers) has gained traction among younger viewers. What does this critical lens ask of viewers?", options: [ "To empathize with narratives about the limitations of age", "To challenge the idea that an artist’s late work should strive for mastery or closure", "To recalibrate one’s critical compass to stilted dialogue, uncomfortable themes, and peculiar sensations", "To seek films that prioritize depth over box office success", ], answer: "To recalibrate one’s critical compass to stilted dialogue, uncomfortable themes, and peculiar sensations", correct: "Film critic Dylan Adamson says the “late style” lens asks viewers not to turn away from films by old men, with their stilted dialogue, clumsy de-aging, and uncomfortable themes of mortality and failure, and instead recalibrate one’s critical compass to their peculiar sensations. And yet, prizing intransigence, difficulty, and contradiction as values in and of themselves risks creating another framework to contain the sensibilities of the elderly. “Late style,” the term first used by Theodor Adorno with reference to the latter works of Beethoven, but it was codified by Edward Said in his 2004 London Review of Books essay “Thoughts on Late Style.” Rather than prizing works that neatly tie the bow on the loose threads of a body of work, Said professed an interest in works that forefront all that is ongoing, unresolved, and messy about ending a life. Of the final plays of Henrik Ibsen, he asked: “What of artistic lateness not as harmony and resolution, but as intransigence, difficulty and contradiction?", incorrect: "Film critic Dylan Adamson says the “late style” lens asks viewers not to turn away from films by old men, with their stilted dialogue, clumsy de-aging, and uncomfortable themes of mortality and failure, and instead recalibrate one’s critical compass to their peculiar sensations. And yet, prizing intransigence, difficulty, and contradiction as values in and of themselves risks creating another framework to contain the sensibilities of the elderly. “Late style,” the term first used by Theodor Adorno with reference to the latter works of Beethoven, but it was codified by Edward Said in his 2004 London Review of Books essay “Thoughts on Late Style.” Rather than prizing works that neatly tie the bow on the loose threads of a body of work, Said professed an interest in works that forefront all that is ongoing, unresolved, and messy about ending a life. Of the final plays of Henrik Ibsen, he asked: “What of artistic lateness not as harmony and resolution, but as intransigence, difficulty and contradiction?", }, ];