Law

Question 1

What are things you are guaranteed and entitled to because of the law?

Answer 1

Legal Rights

Question 2

Very basic things that one is allowed in a democracy are known as …….

Answer 2

Freedoms

Question 3

Obligations you have under the law as a citizen in a country are known as ……

Answer 3

Duties or Responsibilities

Question 4

Laws and their interpretations based on what judges have decided in the past are known as ….

Answer 4

Common Law.

Question 5

Laws that are written into legislation are known as this type of law.

Answer 5

Statute Law.

Question 6

This important piece of legislation in 1960 by Canadian

Government was an important development in the Canadian Legal system.

Answer 6

Bill of Rights.

Question 7

This 1982 piece of legislation (from Pierre Trudeau’s government) formalized exactly what Canadians were entitled to, and entrenched this into the constitution.

Answer 7

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Question 8

What is the name of this 1867 legislation (law) which saw the beginning of Canada?

Answer 8

The Constitution or the British North American Act.

Question 9

The term for Police looking through “your stuff” and keeping some of it as evidense.

Answer 9

Search and Seizure.

Question 10

The process of supplying evidence, which can convict yourself.

Answer 10

Self Incrimination

Question 11

Name the two possible findings that a judge or jury may find in a court case.

Answer 11

Guilty or Innocent

Question 12

What is the right to know why you are being detained or arrested called?

Answer 12

Habeas Corpus

Question 13

What is the name for the process of court where a judge or jury listens to a persons story and makes a decision about their case.

Answer 13

This is a trial.

Question 14

The term for different treatment because of your religion, race, colour, gender, or sexual identity.

Answer 14

Descrimination

Question 15

Bill C-31

Answer 15

The amendment to the Indian Act that made it easier for one to regain their lost Indian Status. Previously it was easier for the children of Aboriginal women to lose their status.

Question 16

People with a countries nationality and legal status (birth certificat, Social Insurance #) are said to be ……

Answer 16

Citizens.

Question 17

These people enforce the laws!

Answer 17

The Police.

Question 18

The highest court of our Province is the….

Answer 18

Court of Queen’s Bench.

Question 19

The highest court of the land.

Answer 19

The Supreme Court of Canada.

Question 20

Here is the place to go if you believe your court case had the wrong outcome.

Answer 20

Court of Appeal.

Question 21

This is the body of law, which concerns itself with serious crimes that often have a victim, who suffer bodily harm

Answer 21

Criminal Law

Question 22

These are the court cases that concern themselves with financial, and business losses, as well as custody issues.

Answer 22

Civil Law.

Question 23

This act is geared towards young people, it was passed in 2003, and attempted to find alternative sentences for young people. It tries to keep them out of prison.

Answer 23

Youth Criminal Justice Act

Question 24

The Act of parliament that dealt with youth in the 1980’s. It was harsher, saw more Teens going to jail and more sentences. Nobody under 12 can be convicted of an offence.

Answer 24

Young Offenders Act - 1984

Question 25

What is the AFN

Answer 25

The Assembly of First Nations is an organization of tribes to push for more Aboriginal Self Government.

Question 26

What are Land Claims?

Answer 26

These are legal claims to the ownership of territory or land. To become totally self-reliant Aboriginal groups argue they will need land, which they had easier access to before Colonization.

Question 27

What three groups make up Canada’s Legal Card-Carrying Aboriginal people?

Answer 27

First Nations, Inuit and Metis.

Question 28

What are settlements?

Answer 28

Agreements which are reached in discussion with groups of people from opposing viewpoints. These may be reached with or with litigation.

Question 29

What is Restorative Justice?

Answer 29

Seeking an outcome to a dispute that brings the perpetrator and victim of a crime together and seeks to repair the damage caused by the crime.

Question 30

Who was JJ Harper?

Answer 30

An Aboriginal Winnipeg man who was stopped mistakenly because police thought he was a car thief, and subsequently shot and killed in an ensuing skirmish with the police.

Question 31

Who was Helen Betty Osborne?

Answer 31

A young Aboriginal Lady who was abducted from her home reserve in Norway House and murdered in The Pas Manitoba. The process of laying charges against her 4 murderers took 16 years.

Question 32

What Are two details you can tell me about David Milgaard?

Answer 32

He was falsely accused and convicted of murder and rape. He spent 23 years falsely imprisoned in Canada.

Question 33

What is the term for the movement in the 1960’s to take aboriginal kids from there families and place them with Caucasion families throught the foster care system?

Answer 33

60’s Scoop.