Chapters 3 and 4, Unit 1

Question 1

What is a Constitution?

Answer 1

A special set of laws that establish a framework of governance.

Question 2

What are Labour Unions?

Answer 2

An organization of workers that acts to protect workers’ rights and interests.

Question 3

What are Collective Rights?

Answer 3

Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical and constitutional reasons.

Question 4

Define Collective Identity.

Answer 4

The shared identity of a group of people, especially because of a common language and culture.

Question 5

Define Affirm.

Answer 5

To validate and express commitment to something.

Question 6

Define First Nations.

Answer 6

The umbrella name for the diverse Aboriginal peoples who have collective rights that are recognized and protected in Canada’s constitution.

Question 7

Define Indian.

Answer 7

Used by the europeans to describe the First Nations of North America.

Question 8

What is a Reserve?

Answer 8

Land for the exclusive use of First Nations.

Question 9

Define Annuity.

Answer 9

An annual payment.

Question 10

Define Assimilate.

Answer 10

To become part of a different cultural group.

Question 11

Define Ethnocentrism.

Answer 11

The belief that one’s culture is superior to all other cultures.

Question 12

What was the Indian Act?

Answer 12

Federal legislation related to the rights and status of First Nations peoples (“status Indians”), first passed in 1876 and amended several times.

Question 13

Define Anglophone.

Answer 13

A person whose first language is English.

Question 14

Define Francophone.

Answer 14

A person whose first language is French.

Question 15

What is the Official Language Community?

Answer 15

One of the groups in Canadian society whose members speak an official language of Canada — French or English — as their first language.

Question 16

What is the Official Language Minority?

Answer 16

A group that speaks one of Canada’s official languages (English or French) and that does not make up the majority population of a province or territory.

Question 17

Define Publicly Funded.

Answer 17

Paid for by taxes and provided by government.

Question 18

What was a Scrip?

Answer 18

A document that could be exchanged for land and that was offered to the Métis at the time the Numbered Treaties were negotiated.

Question 19

Define Autonomy.

Answer 19

Authority to make decisions.

Question 20

What are Fundamental Freedoms?

Answer 20

Everyone has the freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of thought, belief, opinion, including freedom of the press and other media of communication, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of association.

Question 21

What are Equality Rights?

Answer 21

Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination.

Question 22

What are Legal Rights?

Answer 22

Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

Question 23

What are General Rights?

Answer 23

The guarantee in this charter of certain rights and freedoms shall not be construed so as to abrogate or derogate from any aboriginal, treaty or other rights or freedoms that pertain to the aboriginal peoples of Canada including, any rights or freedoms that have been recognized by the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763; and any rights or freedoms that now exist by way of land claims agreements or may be so acquired.

Question 24

What are Democratic Rights?

Answer 24

Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein.

Question 25

What are Mobility Rights?

Answer 25

Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in, and leave Canada.

Question 26

What is the Application of the Charter?

Answer 26

This charter applies to the Parliament and government of Canada in respect of all matters within the authority of Parliament including all matters relation to the Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories; and to the legislature and government of each province in respect of all matters within the authority of the legislature of each province.

Question 27

What are Enforcement Rights?

Answer 27

Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.

Question 28

Which Rights and Freedoms are Individual?

Answer 28

Fundamental Freedoms, Equality Rights, Legal Rights, General Rights.

Question 29

Which Rights and Freedoms are Collective?

Answer 29

Official Languages of Canada, Minority Language Educational Rights.

Question 30

Which groups have Collective Rights in Canada? Why?

Answer 30

1. Anglophone
2. Francophone
3. First Nations
   This is because these were the first major groups in Canada.