Rights, Freedoms, & Responsibilities

Question 1

What is the Oakes Test

Answer 1

The criteria for the restriction of a charter right to be a “reasonable limit”

Question 2

What requirements are established in the Oakes Test

Answer 2

Reason must be important enough to justify overriding a constitutionally protected right
The measures must be logically connected to the objective
The right must be limited as little as possible
The more severe the limitation, the more important the objective must be