Government and YCJA
This type of government occurs when the ruling political party holds more than half of the total seats in the House of Commons
What is a majority government?
Land set aside for the exclusive use and governance of First Nations communities.
What is a reserve?
This core category of Charter rights guarantees that Canadian citizens have the right to enter, remain in, or leave Canada.
What are mobility rights
Under Canada's points system, this specific category of immigrants is evaluated on skills, education, and language proficiency to fill labor shortages.
What is the economic class
This specific type of crown corporation or government program is reduced when a country shifts its mixed economy left-to-right toward a market economy.
What is a publicly owned company
The three distinct branches of Canada's federal political system responsible for making, debating, and enforcing laws.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?
These five categories of individual protections are entrenched inside Canada’s Charter: Fundamental, Democratic, Mobility, Legal, and Equality.
What are Individual Rights and Freedoms?
In Canada's parliament, this group of elected representatives forms the government and introduces most of the bills, led by the Prime Minister.
What is the executive branch (or cabinet)
Economic, political, health, and security factors are the primary criteria that directly shape this piece of legislation.
What is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act?
This economic model features a mix of both private ownership and heavy government intervention to provide public goods.
What is a mixed economy?
Because the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is protected directly inside Canada's Constitution, we use this term to mean it is firmly locked into law.
What is entrenched?
Federal legislation first passed in 1876 that explicitly regulates the official status and rights of First Nations peoples.
What is the Indian Act?
This economic term describes the situation where supply is low but consumer demand is high, usually causing the price of a product to rise.
What is scarcity
This 1991 federal-provincial accord gives Quebec the exclusive right to select its own economic immigrants and set its own integration requirements.
What is the Canada-Quebec Accord
In Canada's mixed economy, the government uses money from this specific collection system to fund social programs that individuals cannot easily buy themselves.
What is taxation
Community members who play a vital role in providing meaningful, culturally relevant consequences to youth offenders within Indigenous communities.
What are Elders?
This mechanism allows the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to protect individual citizens from unfair laws created by this specific level of government.
What is the federal government?
This type of economic system features a high level of government regulation and state-owned companies to control production.
What is a planned/command economy
This landmark 1985 Supreme Court decision ruled that the Charter applies to anyone physically in Canada, giving refugees the right to an oral hearing.
What is the Singh Decision
This collective term describes how individual consumer purchasing choices directly impact broader societal issues, such as resource sustainability and waste management.
What is consumerism
The principle of "Representation by Population" dictates how members of this specific parliamentary house are determined.
What is the House of Commons?
Instead of establishing dedicated land bases in Manitoba, the Canadian government historically issued this form of land/money paper to the Métis
What is scrip?
This economic concept describes how a government uses legislation, like the Emergencies Act, to prevent monopolies and protect consumer choice.
What is government regulation/intervention
This specific category of people is explicitly barred from entry under Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act due to threats to national safety.
What are inadmissible people, or people deemed security threats
This legal body interprets the Charter and ruled in a landmark 2015 decision that the right to strike is constitutionally protected under freedom of association.
What is The Supreme Court of Canada?