Freedoms
The freedom to share your ideas and feelings.
What is freedom of expression?
These rights belong to each person living in Canada.
What are Individual Rights?
Equality means treating people with _(2 words)__.
Fairness and Respect
Canadian citizens 18 or older
Who is allowed to vote in federal or provincial elections?
Scenario: Student wants to pray quietly during lunch.
Which right protects this?
Freedom of religion
True or False: You can follow any religion you choose in Canada.
True
True or False: Collective rights protect groups like Indigenous peoples and French and English speakers.
True
True or False: You can be treated differently because of your race or gender.
False
Right or Responsibility: voting
responsibility
Scenario: Two friends protest peacefully for cleaner air.
What freedom allows this?
Freedom of peaceful assembly
This freedom lets you meet peacefully with others.
What is freedom of peaceful assembly?
Scenario: A Francophone family wants their children to attend a French school in their province.
What type of right protects this?
Collective/Language Rights
Scenario: A school only lets boys join a sports team. What right is being denied?
Equality Rights
Scenario: A government decides not to hold a meeting for 3 years.
Is this allowed under democratic rights?
No- have to meet atleast once every 12 months
Scenario: A girl in a wheelchair cannot get into a community centre. What right helps her?
Answer: Equality rights / Accommodations for disabilities
Maya wants to write a letter to the newspaper about saving the trees in her town.
Which freedom protects this?
Freedom of expression
Scenario: A group of Indigenous fishers are allowed to fish in a traditional area because of past treaties.
Individual or collective?
Collective
Changing something to help everyone have a fair chance.
What is accommodation or equity?
Scenario: A government wants to stay in power for 20 years without an election.
Is this allowed?
No, elections take place every 5 years.
Scenario: A student wants to move from Alberta to Nova Scotia.
Which right gives them the freedom to move?
Answer: Mobility rights
Name two things you are free to think or believe on your own.
Any two: your opinions, beliefs, thoughts, ideas, religion.
Name one limit that might be placed on your rights.
You cannot hurt someone, break the law, or spread lies.
Name one group protected under equality rights.
race, religion, gender, disability, age.
Scenario: A city says only people born in Canada can run for office.
Does this follow democratic rights?
No. Any Canadian citizen can run for office, even if they were born in another country.
Scenario: A teen wants to vote in a provincial election but is only 15.
Why can’t they vote yet?
Answer: Democratic rights say you must be 18+.