True or false: Your freedoms are guaranteed as long as you don’t interfere with the freedoms of others.
True
You have these at all times, are inalienable and cannot be curbed.
Rights
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)
Allows the possibility of both levels of gov’t to pass a law even if the law violates one of the rights
Notwithstanding clause
True or false: You can be held under arrest for as long as the government wants.
False
These are privileges granted by the society you live in
Freedoms
The Charter was entrenched as a part of the Canadian Constitution in what year?
1982
The final appeal to the Charter is made at this level of the Judicial Branch.
Supreme
The Charter is entrenched in this important document?
The Constitution
List THREE rights that are protected under the Charter:
Democratic Rights, Mobility Rights, Legal Rights, Equality Rights
True or false: You have the right to be educated in French or English
True (Official Languages)
This was Canada’s first constitution and parts of it are still in effect today.
BNA Act
A part of the Charter that may protect a student against a search of his/her locker.
Legal rights
List THREE fundamental freedoms:
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?
To be fixed firmly within (EG. The Charter is ____________ in the Canadian Constitution.).
Entrenched
This right allows you to move and seek work in any province in Canada.
Mobility rights
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)
The term Suffragette refers to Women's Voting Rights Movement, what does the term actually mean?
What is Latin for "to vote"?
This means the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without trial.
Internment