Parts of the Charter
Rights in the Charter that are based on the ability to go places
What are Mobility Rights?
This freedom is affirmed when an editorial cartoon criticizes the Prime Minister.
What is Freedom of expression (or thought, belief, opinion, and expression)?
Police must have this to search an individual or a home, ensuring protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
What are reasonable grounds?
This act was passed in 1914 and used three times in Canadian history—during World War I, World War II, and the October Crisis of 1970—to suspend rights.
What is the War Measures Act?
A right to live your life without interference from the government unless you infringe on the freedoms of others.5
What is a Freedom?
These rights ensure that every individual is equal before and under the law, protecting against discrimination based on characteristics like race, age, or religion.
What are Equality Rights?
The Lord's Day Act was seen as a violation of this freedom because it forced non-Christians to observe a Sunday day of rest.
What is Freedom of Religion?
This year marks the last time Canada held a referendum on Quebec's right to sovereignty.
What is 1995?
This key vocabulary term refers to the imprisonment or confinement of people in large groups without trial.
What is Internment?
The term for the movement by women protesting the Canada Elections Act in the early 1900s, with the goal of obtaining the right to vote.1824
What is Suffrage?
These rights guarantee that every Canadian citizen has the right to vote and run for public office.
What are Democratic Rights?
This freedom is affirmed when people meet to demonstrate peacefully in the streets.
What is Freedom of peaceful assembly?
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty beyond this, according to Legal Rights.
What is reasonable doubt?
This group of Canadians was forced into internment camps during World War II after Mussolini declared war on Canada.
Who were Italian Canadians?
Organizations of workers that protect employee rights and interests concerning wages, labour hours, and benefits.
What are Labour Unions?
Rights in the Charter based on the Justice System, guaranteeing a person accused of a crime a fair trial and the right to a lawyer.
What are Legal Rights?
This freedom includes the right to associate with any person or group, which was infringed upon when groups were not allowed to meet during the War Measures Act.
What is Freedom of Association?
This right allows Canadians to move freely within the country and to seek employment anywhere in Canada.
What is a Mobility Right?
This list, created under the Anti-Terrorism Act, checks names against suspected terrorists and can prevent people from flying, infringing on Mobility Rights.
What is the No-Fly List?
Discrimination based on age, such as forced retirement at 65 years old.27
What is Ageism?
These specific rights ensure the option exists to attend French first language classes in provinces where French is not the majority language
What are Minority Language Education Rights?
Rights and freedoms are not without these, as they may be limited to protect the rights and freedoms of others, such as when peaceful protests turn into riots.
What are limits?
Everyone has the right not to be compelled as a witness, and to maintain this when accused of a crime.
What is the right to remain silent?
This Prime Minister, concerned about issues in Quebec, was responsible for putting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms into the Constitution in 1982.
Who is Pierre Elliot Trudeau?
This is the responsibility tied to having rights and freedoms, as illustrated by the idea that "My rights begin where yours end."
What is Individual Responsibility?