Social

Question 1

Charter

Answer 1

A written grant by a country’s legislative or sovereign power, by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined.

Question 2

Constitution

Answer 2

A special set of laws that establish a framework of governance.

Question 3

Individual rights

Answer 3

Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.

Question 4

Fundamental freedoms

Answer 4

• The freedom to express your opinions.
• The freedom to choose your own religion.
• The freedom to organize peaceful
  meetings and demonstrations.
• The freedom to associate with any
  person or group.

Question 5

Democratic rights

Answer 5

Canada is a democratic system and the citizens have democratic rights.

Question 6

Mobility rights

Answer 6

• The right to move anywhere within Canada and to earn a living there.
• The right to enter, stay in, or leave Canada.

Question 7

Legal rights

Answer 7

• The right to be free of imprisonment, search and seizure without reasons backed by law and evidence.
• The right to a fair and quick public trial by an
  impartial court that assumes that you are innocent until proven guilty.

Question 8

Equaity rights

Answer 8

• The right to be free of discrimination because of race, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, or mental or physical disability.

Question 9

Suffrage

Answer 9

The right to vote

Question 10

Internment

Answer 10

Putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime.

Question 11

Enshrined

Answer 11

to contain or keep something as if in a holy place.

Question 12

Freedom

Answer 12

The power or right to act, speak or think as one wants without restraint.