Types of Rights
This document protects individual rights and freedoms in Canada.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
This law controlled many aspects of First Nations’ lives and limited their rights.
What is the Indian Act?
This court has the final say on how the Charter is interpreted.
What is the Supreme Court of Canada?
The highest set of laws that establish a framework of governance
This section of the Charter allows the government to limit rights if needed.
What is Section 1 of the Charter?
These rights protect freedom of religion, expression, assembly, and the press.
What are Fundamental Freedoms?
This is a group of women who advocated for women's right to vote.
What are suffragettes?
This principle means lower courts must follow the Supreme Courts decisions.
This part of the Constitution protects individual rights and freedoms.
What is the Charter of Rights wnd Freedoms?
Workplace cases like Mary Kelly focus on protection from this.
What is discrimination?
The right to vote and run for public office belongs to this category of Charter rights.
What are Democratic Rights?
This law allowed the government to suspend rights during crisis.
What is the War Measures Act?
This law was challenged because it limited freedom of religion by forcing Sunday closing.
What is the Lord's Day Act?
An organization of workers that acts to represent workers rights and interests.
Canada strives to be a ______ society.
What is free and democratic?
These rights apply everywhere in the world and are recognized internationally.
What are universal rights?
This occurred when people were detained based on ethnicity during wartime in Canada.
What is internment?
This case required the government to provide sign language interpreters in hospitals.
What is the Eldridge case?
The turning over or return of control that was formally held by another country.
What is Patriate?
The Charter protects rights only when this type of organization is involved.
What is the government?
Rights protect freedom, dignity, and equality, but also do this to governments.
What is limits the power of government?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created after WWII mainly to prevent this from happening again.
What is abuse of rights?
This case questioned whether banning junk food advertising violated freedom of expression.
What is the junk food ad ban case?
This test is used by courts to decide if a rights violation is justified.
What is the Oakes test?
Olive Dickason argued that this business policy is age discrimination.
What is forced retirement?