Eight provinces and two territories have built a Canadian General Educational Development (GED) testing program. The Canadian GED program has a number of major Canadian characteristics that have evolved due to a certain inner logic set in motion as the provinces and territories joined the GED program. In order, these provinces and territories have joined the GED program: Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Labrador, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory, and Alberta. Six salient Canadian characteristics have come to make this a Canadianized program in content, delivery, and Canadian regulatory policies: use of grade levels, centralization, consistent passing levels, French testing, Canadian social studies, and metrication. These six characteristics have created a Canadian GED program that is Canadian in content with Canadian social studies and metrication, Canadian in form with French GED, and Canadian in terms of delivery arising from higher pass levels and in terms of a long tradition of centralization and standardization in provinces/territories as compared to the United States. (YLB)