Immigration and Rights

Question 1

What is the difference between quality of life and standard of living?

Answer 1

The standard of living is the main necessities available or required while the quality of life measures happiness

Question 2

Standard of living definition

Answer 2

level of wealth, material goods, and necessities available or required by an area

Question 3

Define quality of life

Answer 3

The amount of comfort and happiness of individuals in an area

Question 4

What is Bill 62

Answer 4

Bans religious face and head coverings in public spaces

Question 5

Canadian charter of rights and freedoms definition

Answer 5

it sets out those rights and freedoms that Canadians believe are necessary in a free and democratic society.

Question 6

Civil rights definition

Answer 6

the rights of citizens to a political and social freedom and equality

Question 7

collective rights definition

Answer 7

Rights guaranteed to specific groups in society

Question 8

cultural rights definition

Answer 8

The rights to take part in a cultural life. the rights to express ones humanity, and their values, beliefs, languages, etc.

Question 9

culture definition

Answer 9

realting to the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a society

Question 10

demographics definition

Answer 10

statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it

Question 11

welfare rights ( economic and social) definition

Answer 11

the rights to adequate food, to adequate housing, to education, to health, to social security, to take part in cultural life, to water and sanitation, and to work.

Question 12

Define economic immigration

Answer 12

people who immigrate based on their skills, for work, and to contribute to society

Question 13

Define equality rights

Answer 13

the rights of all citizens to equal treatment under the law.

Question 14

define foreign aid

Answer 14

money, food, or other resources given or lent by one country to another. ( any type of assistance given to one country form another)

Question 15

define the human developement index

Answer 15

a summary composite measure of a country’s average achievements in three basic aspects of human development: health, knowledge and standard of living.

Question 16

define humanitarian immigration

Answer 16

immigration due to the safety and wellbeing of a person. immigration due to threats such as war, poverty, natural disasters,etc.

Question 17

define immigration

Answer 17

the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

Question 18

define individual rights

Answer 18

fundamental rights guaranteed by a government so that every individual citizen can live a free and equitable life.

Question 19

define language

Answer 19

a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves

Question 20

define minority

Answer 20

the smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number.

Question 21

define multiculturalism

Answer 21

The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

Question 22

define non governmental organizations

Answer 22

nonprofit entities independent of governmental influence that work to improve the well-being of the world

Question 23

define quebec charter of french values

Answer 23

creation of a secular society- to have religion and the state seperate

Question 24

define reasonable accomodation

Answer 24

what extent a society should reasonably shape its rules and values to ‘accomodat’ religious or cultural considerations

Question 25

define refugees

Answer 25

a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Question 26

define secularism

Answer 26

the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.

Question 27

define social immigration

Answer 27

immigrating due to family reasons

Question 28

define the universal declaration of human rights

Answer 28

a historic document which outlined the rights and freedoms everyone is entitled to