Canada’s Federal Political System
These are the three branches of Canada’s federal government?
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
These are the ages which the youth criminal justice act applies to people in Canada.
What is 12-17?
This was the year the charter was signed into law.
What is 1982?
These are two groups that are recognized as having collective rights in Canada.
This is what we call factors that force people to leave a country.
What are push factors?
This unelected group was inspired by the British House of Lords to represent the educated and land owners.
What is the senate?
Unlike adults, most youths will not receive one of these if charged with a criminal offence.
This fundamental freedom allows Canadians to express their opinions without punishment from the government.
What is freedom of expression?
This controversial 1876 act officially codified the collective rights of Indigenous peoples.
What is the Indian Act?
What is the Singh decision?
This group attempts to influence the government on behalf of interest groups or industries
What are lobbyists?
These are two things that justice advocacy groups do.
What is attempt to address the root causes of crime, provide the public with education on laws and the justice system, work with people who have broken the law to help them re-enter society, advocate for measures which will make the criminal justice system fairer.
This is what the right for women to vote is called.
What is woman's suffrage?
What are the numbered treaties?
Some people argue that the recent influx of immigration has caused the cost of this to rise.
What is housing?
A government body that has two chambers.
What is bicameral?
This is the an alternative form of justice based on Indigenous history and culture where offenders meet with members of their community, especially those impacted by the crime they committed.
What are sentencing circles?
These two groups of Canadian were forced into interment camps during World War 2.
Who are Japanese and Italian Canadians?
In 1982 this group was officially recognized as being Indigenous under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What is the Metis?
This is the largest class of immigrants who come into Canada.
What are economic immigrants?
These are three examples of government ministers.
What is the minster of defence, minster of finance, minster of environment, minster of public safety, minister of foreign affairs, minister of indigenous services, etc.
This is something that is allowed in the criminal justice act but not allowed in the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
What is publishing names of offenders?
These are the rights which allow you to move anywhere within Canada and enter and leave Canada freely.
What are mobility rights?
This province eliminated funding for Catholic Schools (and thereby French schools) in 1890, making it an "English only province" until the Charter of Rights and Freedoms established that all provinces must have French schools available.
What is Manitoba.
These are three of the goals of the Immigration and Refugee protection act.
What are pressuring cultural, economic, and political benefits for all of Canada, reuniting families, respecting the bilingual character of Canada, and promoting successful integration of immigrants into Canada.