Individual rights
The right to be treated with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, national or ethnic origin, religion, or disability.
What are equality rights?
Rights given to the original occupants of the land.
What are Aboriginal rights?
In 1982 many individual and collective rights were entrenched in this.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Name and explain 2 out of the 4 pillars of democracy.
People who work together.
What are allies?
All people have the right to move around the country.
What are mobility rights?
Right to have services in French or English.
What are Official Language rights?
It was because of this important announcement that anyone (the British and the Canadian government) wanting access to land and resources in Canada were required to make agreements with the Indigenous people living here.
What is the Royal Proclamation?
Name and explain 2 out of the 4 pillars of democracy.
When something is put into a law.
What is entrench?
The right to vote in a municipal, provincial, or federal election.
What are democratic rights?
The right to communicate with government officials in English or French.
What are Official Languages rights?
It was because of this special announcement that many Indigenous nations are still making treaties and land claims with provincial governments today.
What is the Royal Proclamation?
Explain the three outcomes (terms) of the Great Peace of Montreal.
The skill of managing peaceful discussions and negotiations.
What is diplomacy?
If arrested, we have the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty.
What are legal rights?
The right to use, access, hunt, and fish on traditional territories.
What are Aboriginal collective rights?
Consensus was used as a a form of decision making during this important treaty of 1701.
What is the Great Peace of Montreal?
Describe why it is important that Aboriginal collective rights are entrenched in the charter.
A decision that people directly vote on.
What is a plebiscite?
The right to go to court if any of your rights are denied or taken away?
What are enforcement rights?
This historical event lead to the recognition of Aboriginal collective rights and their inclusion in the charter.
What is the Great Peace of Montreal?
Explain how 3 out of the 4 pillars of democracy are related to the process of consensus.
The Great Peace of Montreal en francais.
La Grande Paix de Montreal.