Rights Review Flashcards
What Right allows you to move between provinces and come in and out of the country?
Mobility Rights
This Right allows you to be FREE of discrimination based on your age, gender, religion, ethnic origin, and disability.
Equality Rights
If you are arrested you have the right to contact a lawyer. You also have the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. What Right do these fall under?
Legal Rights
What do Democratic Rights guarantee?
You can vote for a political leader if you are 18 years old and a Canadian citizen. You can also run for political office yourself.
What right guarantees your ability to communicate with the government in French and English and get a reply in the same language?
Official Languages Rights
What does Minority Language Education Rights protect?
It protects your ability to be educated at an English or French school
Mary was not hired for the job she applied to, even though she was very qualified. When she asked why she did not get hired, the manager said he didn’t like to hire women. What right does this violate?
Equality Rights
A Canadian soldier stationed in Afghanistan sent a vote home to Canada during the last Federal election. What right was he exercising?
Democratic Rights
Marianne sent an email her local MLA in French, but the MLA refused to respond in French. Does this violate any of Marianne’s rights?
Official Languages Rights
During a nice walk down the street, John was randomly stopped by a police officer who took his backpack and looked through it, and then looked through his pockets. Does this go against any of John’s rights?
Legal Rights
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the government shut down Canadian borders and people could not come in or out of the country. Many people complained this was against one of their Charter rights. Which one?
Mobility Rights
In a small town in Alberta, there was a large group of students who spoke French even though the majority of the population spoke English. They asked for a Francophone school to be made so they could attend a French school. What right allows this?
Minority Language Education Rights
