Which courts are directly under the Supreme Court of Canada?

Discover Canada's diagram of "Canada's System of Government" shows the Judicial branch with three layers. At the top sits the Supreme Court of Canada with its "nine judges appointed by the Governor General." Directly below it, the diagram lists two parallel court systems: the Federal Court of Canada and the Provincial Courts. The right test answer is therefore Federal and Provincial Courts.

The roles of each court are explained in Discover Canada's prose. The guide writes: The Supreme Court of Canada is our country's highest court. The Federal Court of Canada deals with matters concerning the federal government. In most provinces there is an appeal court and a trial court, sometimes called the Court of Queen's Bench or the Supreme Court. So at the federal level, the Federal Court of Canada handles federal-government matters; at the provincial level, each province runs its own appeal court and trial court.

Below the federal and provincial courts come more specialised courts. Discover Canada writes: "There are also provincial courts for lesser offences, family courts, traffic courts and small claims courts for civil cases involving small sums of money." So the family court and the traffic court are below the provincial appeal and trial courts — not directly under the Supreme Court.

The structure works as a layered hierarchy. Discover Canada's top-level Judicial branch is anchored by the Supreme Court of Canada at the top, with the Federal Court and Provincial Courts directly below it, and more specialised courts further below those. So Federal and Provincial Courts are exactly the right description for what sits directly under the Supreme Court of Canada.

The question is testing whether new citizens have noticed how Discover Canada draws the Judicial-branch hierarchy. The guide commits to a specific structure: Supreme Court of Canada at the top, Federal Court of Canada and Provincial Courts directly below.

The wrong answer choices each pick courts that Discover Canada places lower in the hierarchy or does not name. Municipal and family courts are described as more specialised provincial courts — below the provincial appeal and trial courts. Regional and federal appeals courts is not the guide's labelling. District and magistrate courts are not the names Discover Canada uses for the layer directly under the Supreme Court. The right answer is the federal-and-provincial pair.