Individual and collective rights

Question 1

what are individual rights?

Answer 1

The right that every individual citizen has

Question 2

where are our rights and freedoms held in the government system?

Answer 2

our rights and freedoms are held in a documents called the charters of rights and freedoms that lay within the constitution.

Question 3

what is the constitution act of 1982 and how was it used?

Answer 3

the constitution act of 1982 was implemented so that if Canadian rights were being infringed they could challenge them in court to get it sorted out.

Question 4

what are fundamental freedoms?

Answer 4

the freedom to peaceful assembly, expression, religion and consciences

Question 5

what are democratic rights?

Answer 5

the right to participate in voting in elections and running elections as well.

Question 6

what are mobility rights?

Answer 6

the right to move, stay, leave and enter Canada

Question 7

what are legal rights?

Answer 7

the right to life of liberty security of person, no unreasonable seizures, no arbitauary detainment and no unreasonable treatment

Question 8

what are equality rights?

Answer 8

anything that involves discrimination in terms of religion, age, gender, disabilities, ethnicity and mental disabilities.

Question 9

what are the language rights for francophones and anglophones?

Answer 9

they have minority language education rights

Question 10

what is duty to accommodate

Answer 10

to make it easier for people with disabilities to be involved as well such as making ramps for people with wheel chairs or rails for people who need standing support.

Question 11

what does undo hardship mean?

Answer 11

to keep within budget to make sure that people aren’t getting too much or because that the cause cost too much money.

Question 12

what was an interment camp and who was involved

Answer 12

an interment camp was a certain land which was sort of treated as jail or a jail camp for minorities.

Question 13

what are collective rights?

Answer 13

collective rights are the rights specifically only given to the historically founders of Canada like the first nation, Metis, and francophones.

Question 14

what are collective identities?

Answer 14

collective identities and shared sense of identities ranging from religion, countries, tradition and beliefs.

Question 15

what is the Indian act?

Answer 15

the Indian act was an event that tried to assimilate a whole group f people and transition them into another cultural belief.

Question 16

what does annuity mean?

Answer 16

yearly payments for a person.

Question 17

what does ethnocentrism mean?

Answer 17

meaning that you think or believe your culture is more superior than the other culture.

Question 18

why did the first nations sign treaties vs why did the government sign treaties?

Answer 18

the first nations sign the treaty with the government to get land, education, fishing reserves and healthcare. The government signed the treaty to claim land from them to make industrial development in those areas.

Question 19

what are the numbered treaties and how is this important to the first nations of Canada?

Answer 19

the numbered treaties were signed by the government and first nations because they wanted promised reserved land and the right to be able to hunt and fish in return to have the title of aboriginal people.

Question 20

why did certain groups get special collective rights?

Answer 20

due to historical factoring events that lead to them getting mistreated and in returned getting back some and more rights they needed back in return.

Question 21

How do you get an Indian status?

Answer 21

you get an Indian status if you are part of a Indian collective identity that contributed to Canada’s historical events. you lose you status if a status Indian marries a non Indigenous and maybe might not be able to qualify for one if you are a decedent of a Indian status parent.

Question 22

what myths were there when having a Indian status card?

Answer 22

Free health medications, free items, used as a passport, dont need to pay for taxes

Question 23

why do anglophones and francophones have collective rights in Quebec?

Answer 23

Because english and french are our official languages of Canada and are suppose to have equal status with one another.

Question 24

what are the official languages?

Answer 24

english and french

Question 25

what is a script?

Answer 25

a script was a document containing parts of land for the metis to live on but were really bad, small and had terrible living resources

Question 26

how did the Metis use scrip?

Answer 26

metis thought that the script wasn’t worth the land and sold it back to the people who gave it to them which they then moved to another province.

Question 27

what legislation recognizes the Metis as one of Canada’s founding people?

Answer 27

the charters of rights and freedoms

Question 28

what are reserves?

Answer 28

a certain land given the the Indians as a way to honour their needs but were really bad.

Question 29

who were the metis?

Answer 29

decedents of francophones and first nations.

Question 30

how was the first nations and the governments perspectives of treaties different and what factors contributed to this mistake?

Answer 30

when signing the treaties with the government and first nations, they both wanted something they needed but was unfairly recorded because the translation of an indigenous speaker translating it to a non indigenous speaker is said differently. the government also translated it written instead of orally so that also contributed to different perspectives. they also had different world views on how they were going to run it.

Question 31

what does assimilation mean?

Answer 31

to take over a cultural belief and convert them into another culture.

Question 32

what is the royal proclamation of 1763?

Answer 32

document of European settlements in aboriginal territory

Question 33

what does cede mean?

Answer 33

give up territory.

Question 34

what is multiculturalism?

Answer 34

several different ethnic groups within a society

Question 35

what were the first nations promised for signing the treaty with the government?

Answer 35

land, fishing licence, hunting rights, and healthcare.