Individual Rights

What document is the highest legal authority that all other laws must follow?

• The Government

• The Constitution

• The Main Law

• Crown Law

True or False: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is part of the constitution?

• True

• False

What year did the Charter of Rights and Freedoms come into effect?

• 1962

• 1972

• 1982

• 1992

True or False: The Rights in the Charter are absolute and cannot be limited.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The Charter allows Canada’s government to impose “reasonable limits” on Charter rights  “as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society”

List the 5 categories of rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Answer explanation

Fundamental Freedoms

Democratic Rights

Mobility Rights

Legal Rights

Equality Rights

Match each right to its category

• Legal Rights

• The right to vote for members of the House of Commons

• Equality Rights

• The right to be free from discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, gender, age, mental or physical disability

• Fundamental Freedoms

• The freedom to associate with any person or group

• Mobility Rights

• The right to enter, stay in, or leave Canada

• Democratic Rights

• The right to be free of imprisonment, search or seisure without reasons backed by law and evidence

Which two categories of rights only have exceptions for people who are NOT Canadian citizens?

• Fundamental Freedoms

• Mobility Rights

• Democratic Rights

• Equality Rights

• Legal Rights

The ________ Act banned Indigenous Peoples from wearing traditional clothes, partaking in traditional ceremonies or taking political action.

Suffragettes advocated for women's rights in which of these categories?

• Democratic Rights

• Mobility Rights

• Legal Rights

• Fundamental Freedoms

The _____ ________ Act was used to arrest Italian and Japanese Canadians during WWII.