Rights & Freedoms
5 Freedoms and/or Rights guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Fundamental Freedoms, Democratic Rights, Mobility Rights, Legal Rights, Equality Rights
You are allowed to run or vote in any election.
What are [Democratic] Rights?
Name the 5 categories of civil rights that make up the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What are Fundamental Freedoms, Democratic Rights, Legal Rights, Mobility Rights, Equality Rights.
What individuals and groups are allowed to do in society, as established by law.
What are Rights?
The year the Canada Act [Constitution Act] which included the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was officially enacted.
What was 1982?
Allows the possibility of both levels of gov’t to pass a law even if the law violates one of the rights. The violation can be in effect for up to 5 years, but then the gov’t must seek renewal.
What is the "Notwithstanding Clause”
The final appeal to the Charter is made at this level of the Judicial Branch.
What is the Supreme Court of Canada?
The Charter is entrenched in this important document?
What is the Constitution.
To be fixed firmly within (ie. The Charter is ____________ in the Canadian Constitution.). Fill in the blank with the correct term.
What is entrenched?
What are 2 rights not afforded to non-citizens of Canada?
What are Mobility & Democratic Rights?
Which part of the Charter would allow a student to not have to attend a Remembrance Day ceremony?
What is Fundamental Freedoms?
All people in Canada are to be treated the same regardless of wealth, race, religion, etc.
What is equality Right!
If a citizen in Canada is the only person to follow a specific belief/value/custom, they are allowed to maintain this ideology because the charter protects ______________.
What is protecting the rights of the minority?
A special set of laws that establish a framework of governance.
What is constitution?
The term used for when people are imprisoned, commonly in large groups, without trial?
Internment
A part of the Charter that may protect a student against a search of his/her locker.
What are legal rights?
All citizens of Canada can leave and enter Canada whenever they want.
What is a [Mobility] Right?
Which prime minister signed the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Who is Pierre Trudeau?
The term Suffragette refers to Women's Voting Rights Movement, what does the term actually mean?
What is Latin for "to vote"?
The maximum time the Federal Government has before it must call an election.
What is 4 years?
This right allows you to move and seek work in any province in Canada.
What are Mobility Rights?
The civil right under in the Charter which is associated with the need to accept responsibility for group actions or the need to leave the group.
What are Fundamental Freedoms?
Conditions under which the Canadian Government may restrict the rights and freedoms of individuals.
What are conditions that are necessary to maintain a free and democratic society.
Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical or constitutional reasons (i.e., First Nations, Francophones, etc).
What are collective rights?
The Anti-Terror Act is an example of the Federal Government invoking this part of the Charter which many feel is unfair.
What is the "Notwithstanding Act".