John Smith, a law abiding Canadian citizen decides to go on a trip. When he arrives at the airport, he is told that he is not allowed to leave Canada. No reason is given by the authorities.
What are Mobility Rights
100
Paul Martin decides that he wants to be Prime Minister for life and refuses to call an election.
What are Democratic Rights
100
The police walk into your home, arrest you and take you to jail without saying anything to you.
What are Legal Rights
100
The government decides that all churches are to be closed down permanently
What is Freedom of Religion
100
You are told you cannot move to another province to work though you have no criminal record.
What are Mobility Rights
200
You decide to join a peaceful protest about taxes but are arrested because the police do not agree with your position
What is Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
200
You are told you cannot vote in a provincial election because you have only lived there for a year and a half.
What are Democratic Rights
200
The government does not like comments written in a major newspaper because they are critical of the government's actions. As a result the newspaper is not allowed to publish anymore.
What is Freedom of the Press
200
The province of Ontario decides that it will no longer allow Canadians from other provinces to work and live in Ontario.
What are Mobility Rights
200
The government does not allow you yo join an environmental group that protests cutting down trees.
What is Freedom of Association
300
The school that you go to does not allow you to wear your turban.
What is Freedom of Religion and Equality Rights
300
In Canada men have more rights than women.
What are Equality Rights
300
You have been fired from your job because of the colour of your hair. You try to get help but the courts will not hear your case.
What are Equality Rights
300
You decide to protest outside of a movie theater that is showing a movie you believe to be offensive.
What is Freedom of peaceful protest
300
The government decides you can no longer practice your faith.
What is freedom of religion
400
You are told when you go to vote in the federal election you are told you can only vote for one political party.
What are Democratic Rights
400
The police come to your house and arrest your father and do not tell him what he is being arrested for. He then waits 10 years before he goes to trial.
What are Legal Rights
400
You walk into a grocery store and they tell you that you cannot stay because you are blind and there is no one to help you.
What are Equality Rights
400
You are told at work that you need to retire because you are 65 years old.
What are Equality Rights
400
The local government decides that facial piercing and short hair cuts are now illegal.