Categories of the Charter
Charter Facts!
Charter Challenges
Indian Act
War Measures Act
100
The ability to move anywhere within Canada, or enter/leave as you please
What are Mobility Rights?
100
The Year the Charter was signed into law?
When is 1982?
100
This Act was repealed in 1985 as a result of Big M Drug mart remaining open on Sundays.
What is the Lord Day's Act
100
The result of what would happen to an Aboriginal person's status if they went to school, voted in elections, or served in the military.
What is Enfranchisement
100
The only 3 times the War measures Act was used
When is World War 1, World War 2 and the October Crisis (1970)
200
The right to a fair and quick trial, where you will be assumed innocent until proven guilty
What are legal rights?
200
The Prime Minister at the time the Charter was signed
Who is Pierre Trudeau?
200
The rights that Ruby Short claimed were being violated in her charter challenge (Heroin/balloon case study)
What is the right to be free of Unreasonable Search or Seizure
200
The traditional rights that Indigenous people retained under the Indian Act
What are Traditional hunting and Fishing rights?
200
The Ethnic group with the most citizens interned in World War 1
Who are the Ukrainians
300
The right to be free from discrimination regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or any other factor.
What are Equality Rights?
300
The provinces that signed into the Charter in 1982
Who are Alberta, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the Territories. (or Everyone except Quebec)
300
As a response to the face covering ban in Quebec, these rights could be used in a charter challenge
What are Equality rights?
300
The Year the Indian Act was repealed and replaced
When is never?
300
The ethnic group with the most citizens interned in World War 2
Who are the Japanese?
400
The right to vote in fair and public trials that will choose our elected representatives
What are Democratic Rights?
400
If your rights are violated, you can do this in order to ensure the Charter protects you
What is taking the issue to court.
400
The rights Malts and Robs felt were violated in their charter challenge
What are Fundamental Freedoms (Freedom of Expression)
400
The bill that has reformed the way the government grants Indian Status, particularly eliminating the sexism present in the original Indian Act.
What is Bill C-31
400
The Act that replaced the War Measures Act in 1988, in part due to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
What is the Emergencies Act?
500
The ability to speak your mind, and associate with groups regardless of the reason or their ideas.
What are Fundamental Freedoms?
500
The two sections of the charter that applies only to Canadian citizens
What are Mobility and Democratic rights?
500
In Montreal, the transit station have been giving out fines to riders without a proof of purchase ticket, despite the fact some had already paid and lost/forgotten their ticket. A local judge ruled this violated which rights in the Charter?
What is the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty (legal rights)
500
Who were the Aboriginal Nations who signed in to Treaty 6?
Who are the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene and Dakota Sioux?
500
The major differences between the war Measures Act and the Emergencies Act
What is Parliamentary review and being accountable to the Charter?