Rights & Freedoms 1
Rights & Freedoms 2
GRAB BAG 1
GRAB BAG 2
100

True or false: Your freedoms are guaranteed as long as you don’t interfere with the freedoms of others.

True

100

You have these at all times, are inalienable and cannot be curbed.

Rights

100

Are there or should there be limits on your rights and freedoms?*

Yes - The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. (Section 1)

100

Allows the possibility of both levels of gov’t to pass a law even if the law violates one of the rights

Notwithstanding clause

200

True or false: You can be held under arrest for as long as the government wants.

False

200

These are privileges granted by the society you live in

Freedoms

200

The Charter was  entrenched as a part of the Canadian Constitution in what year?

1982

200

The final appeal to the Charter is made at this level of the Judicial Branch.

Supreme

300

The Charter is entrenched in this important document?

The Constitution

300

List THREE rights that are protected under the Charter:

Democratic Rights, Mobility Rights, Legal Rights, Equality Rights

300

True or false: You have the right to be educated in French or English

True (Official Languages)

300

This was Canada’s first constitution and parts of it are still in effect today.

BNA Act

400

A part of the Charter that may protect a student against a search of his/her locker.

Legal rights

400

List THREE fundamental freedoms:

  • freedom of conscience and religion;
  • freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
  • freedom of peaceful assembly; and.
  • freedom of association.
400

In Canada, if only a single citizen was following a unique belief, value, or custom, they are allowed to keep this ideology because the charter guarantees this concept.

What is protecting the rights of the minority or minority rights?

400

To be fixed firmly within (EG. The Charter is ____________ in the Canadian Constitution.).

Entrenched

500

This right allows you to move and seek work in any province in Canada.

Mobility rights

500

Conditions under which the Canadian Government may restrict the rights and freedoms of individuals.

What are conditions that are necessary to maintain a free and democratic society. (Emergencies Act)

500

The term Suffragette refers to Women's Voting Rights Movement, what does the term actually mean?

What is Latin for "to vote"?

500

This means the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without trial.

Internment

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