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Question 1

Section 1 (s. 1) of the Charter

Answer 1

Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the section that confirms that the rights listed in the Charter are guaranteed. The section is also known as the reasonable limits clause or limitations clause, as it legally allows the government to limit an individual’s Charter rights

Question 2

Section 2 of the Charter

Answer 2

the section of the Constitution of Canada that lists what the Charter calls “fundamental freedoms” theoretically applying to everyone in Canada, regardless of whether they are a Canadian citizen, or an individual or corporation.

Section 1 of the Charter permits Parliament or the provincial legislatures to enact laws that place certain kinds of limited restrictions on the freedoms listed under section 2. Additionally, these freedoms can be temporarily invalidated by section 33, the “notwithstanding clause”, of the Charter.

Question 3

Section 2(d) of the Charter

Answer 3

freedom of association

Freedom of association protects three classes of activities: (1) the “constitutive” right to join with others and form associations; (2) the “derivative” right to join with others in the pursuit of other constitutional rights; and (3) the “purposive” right to join with others to meet on more equal terms the power and strength of other groups or entities.

Question 4

Social Reproduction

Answer 4

Describes the reproduction of social structures and systems, mainly on the basis of particular preconditions in demographics, education and inheritance of material property or legal titles (as earlier with aristocracy). Reproduction is understood as the maintenance and continuation of existing social relations

Question 5

These tasks of “social reproduction” differ from employment in at least two ways:

Answer 5

(1) They are generally uncompensated;
(2) They are mostly performed by women.
This dynamic advantages men because they neither do nor pay for this work. This dynamic also advantages capital in that capital does not have to increase wages nor pay higher taxes to ensure the replication of the labour force and the consumer population.

Question 6

Section 15 (s. 15) of the Charter

Answer 6

makes it clear that every individual in Canada – regardless of race, religion, national or ethnic origin, colour, sex, age or physical or mental disability – is to be treated with the same respect, dignity and consideration