Charter Basics
When is 1982?
These give Canadians the right to a quick and fair trial.
What are legal rights?
The three groups that have collective rights in Canada.
What are Francophones, Anglophones, and Indigenous peoples?
The three primary groups of Indigenous peoples that have legislation impacting their collective rights.
What are First Nations, Metis, and Inuit?
The treaty that Edmonton exists in.
What is Treaty 6?
The Charter protects both rights and these.
What are freedoms?
The rights that someone attending a public protest are exercising.
What are fundamental freedoms?
The number of historic "Numbered Treaties".
11
Historical agreements made between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government in regards to land.
What are the Numbered Treaties?
The term used for when people are imprisoned, commonly in large groups, without trial.
What is internment?
Where the Charter of Rights and Freedoms entrenched.
What is Canada's Constitution?
These rights protect Canadians from discrimination.
What are equality rights?
Section of the Charter where language minority education rights are found.
What is Section 23?
A law that outlines how the Treaties are administered, how an Indigenous person's 'status' is determined, etc.
What is the Indian Act?
The maximum time the Federal Government has before it must call an election.
What was 5 years and is now set every 4 years.
This level of government is responsible for enforcing the Charter through the court system.
What is the judicial branch?
These allow for people in Canada to practice any religion.
What are fundamental freedoms?
Term used when a group of French or English speakers is in an area where the another language is used more.
What is an official language minority?
What is the Manitoba Act?
This Prime Minister was in office when the Charter was introduced.
Who is Pierre Trudeau?
If a citizen in Canada is the only person to follow a specific belief/value/custom, they are allowed to maintain this ideology because the charter protects ______________.
What are the rights of the minority?
These rights only fully apply to Canadian Citizens.
What are democratic and mobility rights?
The time range for the Numbered Treaties.
When is 1871 to 1921.
What section of the Charter recognizes the Metis as a distinct cultural group in Canada?
This section allows Parliament or provincial legislature to override certain Charter rights for up to five years.
What is the Notwithstanding Clause (Section 33)?