Charter of Rights and Freedoms
In what year was the Charter of Rights and Freedoms enacted?
(1982)
Which group in Canada holds collective rights alongside First Nations and Inuit?
(What are Métis?)
What is the term for land set aside for the use of a First Nations community?
(What is a reserve?)
What law aimed to assimilate Indigenous peoples into Canadian society?
(What is the Indian Act?)
What term describes the authority to govern oneself or another entity?
(What is sovereignty?)
What is the freedom to express opinions without interference called?
(e.g., freedom of expression)
What is the purpose of collective rights in Canada?
(What is to recognize and affirm the unique identity and contributions of certain groups?)
What piece of legislation defines the rights and obligations of Indigenous peoples in Canada?
(What is the Indian Act?)
What law protects the French language in Canada?
(What is the Official Languages Act?)
What term means to validate or support rights
(What is affirm?)
Which section of the Charter outlines democratic rights?
(What is Section 3?)
Which section of the Constitution Act recognizes the rights of Indigenous peoples?
(What is Section 35?)
What is the term for rights that Indigenous peoples have because of their historical use of the land?
(What are inherent rights?)
What agreements were made between First Nations and the Crown to secure land for settlers?
(What are the Numbered Treaties?)
What is the belief that one’s culture is superior to others?
(What is ethnocentrism?)
What right allows Canadians to live and work anywhere in the country?
(What is mobility rights?)
What is the name of an agreement that granted collective rights to First Nations in the Prairie provinces?
(What is Treaty 6?)
What is a land or money voucher issued to Métis called?
(What is scrip?)
What legislation officially entrenched Indigenous rights in Canada?
(What is the Constitution Act?)
What term means to bring control of a document, like the Constitution, back to a country?
(What is patriate?)
What clause allows provinces to pass laws overriding certain Charter rights?
(What is the notwithstanding clause?)
What protects French-speaking communities in English-majority provinces?
(What are language rights?)
What event in 1982 brought Canada’s Constitution under full Canadian control and recognized Indigenous rights?
(What is the patriation of the Constitution?)
What system caused cultural loss and trauma in Indigenous communities?
(What are Residential Schools?)
What is the term for making rights legally protected within the Constitution?
(What is entrenching?)