Evolution Of Rights

Question 1

What rights evolved in 1944-1962

Answer 1

Civil Liberties in Canada

Question 2

What changes occurred with Racial Discrimination 1944?

Answer 2

Ontario’s 1944 Racial Discrimination Act was the first anti-discrimination law passed in Canada
It prohibited the display of discriminatory signs and advertisements

Question 3

What changes occurred with Saskatchewan in 1947?

Answer 3

Saskatchewan passes Provincial Bill of Rights 1947
Had multiple hearings distinguishing the difference between rights and freedoms
1947, 1948, and 1950 were the key years

Question 4

What occurred form the Movement from Civil Liberties Organizations?

Answer 4

Organizations worked towards a constitutional Bill of Rights and anti-discriminatory legislation for employment, services, and housing
1951 → Fair Employment Practice Act
1951 → Female Employees Fair Remuneration Act
1954 → Fair Accommodation Practices Act

Question 5

What changes were made to sex-based discrimination in 1959

Answer 5

Sex-based discrimination left out of legislation 1959
Was ineffective as a federal statute, most parties didn’t raise concern with this
Ironically, the Vancouver’s women’s council left this

Question 6

What statue did Canada end up passing by 1962

Answer 6

Canada passes first humans right statute
The government often ignored human rights abuses, however, they ended up passing this statute in 1962

Question 7

What right evolved in 1962-1974?

Answer 7

Origins in Canada’s Right Revolution

Question 8

What was incorporated in the humans rights code in 1962?

Answer 8

The Ontario Human Rights Code incorporated existing anti-discrimination laws into one statute, prohibiting discrimination on the base of religion, race, and ethnicity in accommodation, employment and services

Question 9

What are protective shields?

Answer 9

Protective shields were guided by a belief that discrimination acts were the result of individual aberrant behaviour, or psychological problems, and led to the first anti-discriminations statutes

Question 10

What are remedial swords?

Answer 10

Remedial sword designed policies to correct systemic conditions that produce discriminatory results, allowing human rights laws to adapt to the belief that prejudice could be unspoken and systemic

Question 11

What was formed before 1974 that evolved into independent advocacy groups?

Answer 11

Human Rights Associations were formed in each province that evolved into permanent independent advocacy groups

Question 12

What joint committee was formed in 1974 and what occurred from it?

Answer 12

A joint committee of the Senate and House of Commons was formed to secure an agreement to patriate the constitution. However it did not challenge traditional ideas of rights considering only fundamental freedoms

Question 13

What right evolved in 1974-1984?

Answer 13

Human Rights Revolution

Question 14

What did Canada become the first country to recognize?

Answer 14

Canada became the first country to recognize multiculturalism in its Constitution, as well as education, language, Aboriginal Peoples, and equality

Question 15

What did the human rights revolution give to women?

Answer 15

The human rights revolution gave women many benefits, such as the right to annual income, the right to parental leave, and the right to free child/day care

Question 16

What changes about sexual discrimination after 1974?

Answer 16

Sexual discrimination was not recognized in the law, but by 1980 with the advancement of Women Organizations, it became important to understand the issue. The Canadian Committee framed it as a human right to not discriminate

Question 17

What changes were made to Paraliment in 1976?

Answer 17

The Parliament abolished Capital Punishment in 1976. Children were given their own rights (Quebec’s Youth Protection Act, 1977), which granted youths the right to be consulted about switching foster care parents, and to consult a lawyer before judicial proceedings

Question 18

What international impacts did the humans rights revolution have?

Answer 18

Canada’s human rights revolution has had impacts on foreign policy it has influenced other countries to develop their own human rights

Question 19

What rights evolved in 1984-1998?

Answer 19

Contesting Human Rights

Question 20

What occurred form the British Columbia’s Human’s Right Act amended physical and mental disability laws for the better?

Answer 20

From 1969 to mid 1980s, there were more than 50% of complaints dealing with sex discrimination
This period (1984-1998) saw the rise of feminism

Question 21

What occurred form the Justice Rosalie Abella producing a royal commision report on employment equity?

Answer 21

The report began with the plea of a broader approach to rights adjudication that addressed systematic discrimination
Abella’s 1984 report was part of a new era of expanding rights claims

Question 22

What occurred form feminist being at the forefront of advancing intersectionality discrimination?

Answer 22

An intersectional analysis recognized that reducing discrimination to one factor such as, gender failed to account for how some people experienced discrimination

Question 23

What things were reflected and included in the new human right laws?

Answer 23

Sexual harassment, disabilities, social condition, addiction, source of income, and family status were reflected in human right laws.
The decision to include people with disabilities in the 1984 British Columbia Human Rights Act was unopposed among legislators, and the inclusion of disability received virtually unanimous support

Question 24

What occurred after politicians in Canada had, for many years, rejected sexual orientation as a human right?

Answer 24

In 1974 British Columbia had produced one of the most innovative human rights laws in the world, the government refused to include sexual orientation
By the 1990s many provinces still refused to recognize sexual orientation as a human right