Rights & Responsibilities
This document protects the rights and freedoms of all Canadians.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
This person is the leader of a city or town.
Who is the mayor?
This person is the leader of a province.
Who is the premier?
The leader of Canada is called this.
Who is the Prime Minister?
This law, made in 1876, changed how Indigenous communities were governed.
What is the Indian Act?
The right to move, live, and work anywhere in Canada falls under this category.
What are mobility rights?
These people help make decisions for different parts of a city.
Who are city councillors?
How does a person become Premier?
What is they are the leader of the party that wins the most seats in the election?
This group of elected officials helps make laws for Canada.
What is Parliament?
What is the name of the group that is elected in Indigenous communities to make decisions?
What is the Band Council?
Citizens have this important responsibility during elections.
What is voting?
These local rules help keep communities safe and organized.
What are bylaws?
Name one of the main political parties in Ontario.
What is the Progressive Conservative Party, the Ontario Liberal Party, the NDP, or the Green Party?
Name the three branches of government.
What are the executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch?
Some Indigenous communities make decisions for themselves without government control. What is this called?
What is self-governance?
In Canada, everyone is considered this until proven guilty in court.
What is innocent?
What is the process for creating a bylaw?
What is city council debates and votes on it?
Name two things the provincial government is responsible for.
What is healthcare and highways?
Acceptable answers: education, public safety, social services, provincial courts.
These people are chosen by the Prime Minister to help run different government departments.
Who are the cabinet ministers?
Some Indigenous leaders pass their leadership down through family.
What are Hereditary Chiefs?
Give an example of how rights and responsibilities are connected.
What is the right to vote and the responsibility to participate in elections?
Name three things the municipal government takes care of.
What are parks, garbage pickup, and public buses (or snow removal, libraries)?
What happens in a provincial election if a candidate gets the most votes, but not more than half?
What is "They still win that area?" or "They still get elected"?
What is the role of the Governor General?
What is represent the Monarch?
Name one way Indigenous governance is different from Canada’s federal and provincial governments.
What is Indigenous governance is based on traditions and community leadership instead of political parties?