Chapter 11 Flashcards
What insurers rights are maintained✅
Constitations, chargers, specific legislation
What limits are there on these freedom✅
-reasonable limits prescribed by law
-you do not have the right to infringe on others
Promotion of collective rights✅
- an expectation of government
- Group rights are usually achieved through the extension of individual rights
The Charter rights and freedoms✅
- Enshrined in the constitution act of 1982
- design to entrenched individual rights
- also included collective rights for Canada‘s official language groups and aboriginal peoples
The war measures act✅
- A policy where the Canadian government has implemented to suspend, restrict, and limit rights, freedoms, and the basic principles of liberalism
- allowed the cabinet to govern by decree rather than through discussion
Evolved to emergencies act an anti-terrorism act
 enemy alien✅
: a foreigner resident in a country with which his country is at war.
-some sent to internment camps during times of war
October crisis 1970✅
The October Crisis (French: Crise d’Octobre) refers to a chain of events that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence.
The USA patriot act✅
- to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools
- widely represented as a potential threat to personal liberty
- permitted the government to obtain sensitive customer recordings from Internet service providers and other businesses
Past after nine 11
emergencies act✅
- Came from the war measures act
- clearly defined an emergency situation
- limits the power of the government during times of crisis
- must abide by the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms
 The Supreme Court✅
- Judges appointed by the Prime Minister office
- Job is to intemperate the laws
- nine judges
- has ultimate decision regarding the reasonable limits to one’s rights (the judicial system)
 Martial law✅
Term used for implementing emergency measures that gives government increased control
War measures act
Bill 101✅
The charter of the French language
Anti-terrorism act✅
Came from the war measures act
Civil disobedience✅
A citizen refuses to obey a law in a peaceful way