Rights and Freedoms
This right protects individuals from discrimination based on race, gender, religion, and other personal characteristics.
What is Equality Rights (Section 15)?
This section guarantees that individuals can seek legal remedy if their rights are violated.
What is Section 24: Enforcement of Guaranteed Rights and Freedoms?
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing the rights and freedoms outlined in the Charter.
What is the Judiciary (Court system)?
This part of the Charter protects the rights of minority groups, including language minorities.
What is Minority Language Education Rights (Section 23)?
This right allows individuals to express their opinions freely.
What is Freedom of Thought, Belief, Opinion, and Expression (Section 2(b))?
This section allows for reasonable limits on rights and freedoms under certain conditions.
What is Section 1: Reasonable Limits Clause?
This level of government is responsible for enforcing language rights as outlined in the Charter.
What is the Federal Government?
This section of the Charter is essential for protecting Canadians' freedom to gather and protest.
What is Freedom of Peaceful Assembly (Section 2(c))?
This section of the Charter guarantees the right to peacefully assemble and protest.
What is Freedom of Peaceful Assembly (Section 2(c))?
This section deals with language rights and ensures that both English and French have equal status in federal institutions.
What is Section 16: Official Languages?
This document is the supreme law of Canada, under which the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms falls.
What is the Constitution Act, 1982?
This principle prevents the government from changing the Charter’s fundamental rights and freedoms without consent.
What is the Amending Formula?
This section ensures Canadians are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures by authorities.
What is Rights to be Secure Against Unreasonable Search or Seizure (Section 8)?
This section allows Parliament or provincial legislatures to override certain rights in the Charter.
What is Section 33: Notwithstanding Clause?
This legal principle ensures that governments cannot take away rights and freedoms unless they follow fair procedures.
What is Due Process of Law?
The Charter was added to Canada’s Constitution in this year.
What is 1982?
This right gives individuals the ability to practice and manifest their religion or beliefs without interference.
What is Freedom of Conscience and Religion (Section 2(a))?
This section outlines the right to legal counsel when being arrested or detained.
What is Section 10: Rights Upon Arrest or Detention?
This office is responsible for overseeing and protecting the Charter’s provisions in Canada.
What is the Office of the Ombudsman?
he Notwithstanding Clause allows provinces and territories to temporarily override this section of the Charter.
What is Section 2: Fundamental Freedoms?