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

• Fundamental Freedoms

• The freedom to associate with any person or group

• Mobility Rights

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

• Equality Rights

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

• Legal Rights

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

• Democratic Rights

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

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.