Rights and Freedoms
This document guarantees the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Canadian citizens.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
This kind of government lets people choose their leaders by voting.
What is a representative democracy?
In a democracy, this is what you do when you vote or participate in political activities.
What is your civic duty?
This law passed in 1960 gave Indigenous Canadians the right to vote.
What is the Canadian Bill of Rights?
A society is made up of people who share these basic things.
What are needs and wants?
This concept means that no individual or government is above the law.
What is Rule of Law?
In this system, the group with the most votes makes the final decision.
What is majority rule?
In this decision-making style, everyone needs to agree on a solution before moving forward.
What is consensus?
gave woman the rights to vote
what did new New Zealand Act gave to woman ?
A native citizen is someone who was born in the country where they live.
What is a native citizen?
This is the right that guarantees all citizens can express their opinions without fear of punishment
What is freedom of speech?
This ancient document from 1215 limited the power of the King and helped shape democracy.
What is the Magna Carta?
This term refers to a set of beliefs or ideas that guide how a society thinks and acts.
What is an ideology?
This document, created in 1948, set out the rights everyone should have.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
In Ancient Greece, only these people were considered citizens.
Who were the free men over 18?
This right protects you from being arrested or kept in jail without a good reason.
What are legal rights?
This type of government is ruled by one person who makes all the decisions.
What is an autocracy?
As a citizen, it’s your job to know and follow the laws of your country.
What is civic responsibility?
This event in 1982 allowed Canada to have full control over its Constitution.
What is the patriation of the Constitution?
This process helps two sides in a disagreement reach a peaceful solution, with the help of a neutral
What is mediation?
In 1982, this law was added to the Canadian Constitution to protect citizens' rights.
What is the Patriation of the Constitution?
In 1971, Canada officially adopted this policy to embrace and celebrate its diverse people.
What is Multiculturalism?
This right allows you to openly criticize the government without fear of punishment.
What is political freedom?
This process, which happened in 1867, united Canada as one country.
What is Confederation?
This decision-making style means everyone in the group has an equal say.
What is consensual decision-making?