Charter
What right grants this: The right to be free of discrimination based on factors like race, gender, or religion is known as this.
What are equality rights?
This was passed in 1876, and prevented First Nations peoples from taking political action, and banned traditional ceremonies, among other things.
What is the Indian Act?
This is defined as: The belief that one’s culture is superior to all other cultures
Ethnocentrism
What 3 groups have Collective Rights?
Aboriginal peoples
Francophones
Anglophones
How did different perspectives impact treaties?
different perspectives on "owning" land
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was incorporated into the constitution in 1982 for what reason?
To ensure that all Canadians were protected by the same laws, no matter where they lived in the country.
Canada arrested and sent some of its citizens to internment camps because of this.
What is the War Measures Act?
This is an organization of workers who acts to protect workers’ rights and interests.
What is a Labour Union?
How many Numbered Treaties are there?
11
What right does this fall under: The right to be free of imprisonment, search and seizure without reasons backed by law and evidence.
Legal Rights
The Charter gives every person in Canada the same rights, whether or not they are a Canadian citizen except for this right.
The Right to Vote(Democratic Right)
The right to freely enter and leave Canada(Mobility Right)
What groups were victims of Internment Camps?
Italian, Ukrainian and German, and Japanese
What is Entrenching?
Fixing firmly within
What Groups have the right to a education in their language?
Francophone and Anglophone Minority groups of sufficient size
This is a group of women who advocated for the right to vote.
What are suffragettes?
The freedom to organize peaceful meetings and demonstrations is listed under this section of the Charter.
What is Fundamental Freedoms
This document from 1763 recognized the land rights of First Nations and established the principle of making treaties with them.
The Royal Proclamation
This is a set of laws that sets out a framework of governance.
What is a Constitution?
What law is the framework for the Language Laws in Quebec?
Bill 101
What was the annuity for those under treaty 6?
$5
The Charter allows restrictions on individual rights if they are necessary to maintain Canada as this type of society.
Free and Democratic
What event led to the creation of Manitoba as a province and what was the law that created it
The red river resistance which caused the Manitoba act in 1870
What is the Difference between Law and Policy?
A law describes principles or conditions that must be followed.
A policy describes the objectives of the government, within a law.
What are the 3 groups within the term Aboriginal?
First Nations, Inuit and Metis
What did the Manitoba School Act do?
Abolished public funding for Catholic schools.
Made Manitoba an officially English-only province.