In Canada, you are obliged to tell others how you voted.

Discover Canada records this in one direct passage about the secret ballot. The guide writes: Canadian law secures the right to a secret ballot. This means that no one can watch you vote and no one should look at how you voted. You may choose to discuss how you voted with others, but no one, including family members, your employer or union representative, has the right to insist that you tell them how you voted. The status the test wants is therefore false — Canadians are NOT obliged to tell others how they voted.

Three precise commitments. Discover Canada commits the secret-ballot protection to THREE specific facts: (1) Canadian law secures the right to a secret ballot; (2) no one can watch you vote, and no one should look at how you voted; (3) no one has the right to insist that you tell them how you voted. So the protection covers both the act of voting (no observation) and the disclosure afterwards (no compelled telling).

The protection lists specific named persons. Discover Canada commits the no-compulsion rule to apply to a specifically named set of people: "family members, your employer or union representative." So even those closest to you — relatives, the people who pay your wages, or your union — have no right to demand to know how you voted. The voter is the sole controller of the disclosure decision.

The voter retains a right to share if they choose. Discover Canada commits to one important nuance: "You may choose to discuss how you voted with others." So while no one can compel the voter to tell, the voter is free to share their vote voluntarily. The protection runs in one direction only — protecting the voter from compelled disclosure, not preventing the voter from choosing to disclose. The wider context: "Immediately after the polling stations close, election officers count the ballots and the results are announced on radio and television, and in the newspapers." So the aggregate result is public, but the individual vote is private and protected. The combination of the protected secret ballot and free voluntary disclosure means that voting in Canada is a personal, voluntary act with strong legal protection. So when the test asks whether Canadians are obliged to tell others how they voted, the source-precise answer is false — there is no such obligation, and the law explicitly protects the voter from anyone insisting they reveal their vote.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the legal protection of the Canadian secret ballot. Discover Canada commits to one rule: no one has the right to insist that you tell them how you voted. So the statement that you are obliged to tell others how you voted is false.

The wrong answer ("True") reverses the source — there is no obligation to disclose. The named protected categories — family members, employer, union representative — confirm that even those closest to you cannot compel disclosure. Only the false answer matches the source.