Rights And Responsibilities

Question 0

How are R&R secured?

Answer 0

By Canadian law.

Question 1

Where do rights and responsibilities come from?

Answer 1

History

Question 3

What do the R&R reflect?

Answer 3

Shared traditions, identity an values.

Question 4

Where does Canadian law come from?

Answer 4

Laws passed by parliament and provincial legislatures, English common law, civil code of France and unwritten constitution inherited from Great Britain.

Question 5

how long does the tradition of ordered liberty date?

Answer 5

800 years to magna carta in 1215

Question 6

What was Magna carta also known as?

Answer 6

Great Charter of freedoms

Question 7

What freedoms exist in Canada?

Answer 7

• Freedom of conscience and religion
• Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of speech and of the press
• Freedom of peaceful assembly
• Freedom of association

Question 8

What is Habeus corpus and where does it come from?

Answer 8

the right to challenge unlawful detention by the state, comes from English common law

Question 9

Why was the Constitution amended in 1982?

Answer 9

To add entrench the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Question 10

What does the Charter attempt to do?

Answer 10

Summarize fundamental freedoms while also setting out additional rights.

Question 11

What 4 main rights does the Charter include?

Answer 11

• Mobility Rights
• Aboriginal Peoples’ Rights
• Official Language Rights and Minority Language Rights
• Multiculturalism

Question 12

Do English and French have equal status in Parliament and throughout the government?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

What are the 6 main responsibilities of Citizenship?

Answer 13

• Obeying the law
• Taking responsibility for oneself and ones family
• Serving on a jury
• Voting in elections
• Helping others in the community
• Protecting and enjoying our heritage and environment

Question 14

Is there compulsory military service in Canada?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

What is Canada known for around the world?

Answer 15

Being a strong and free country

Question 16

What is Canada the only one of?

Answer 16

Constitutional Monarchy in North America

Question 17

What do Canadians have that we are proud of?

Answer 17

Unique identity

Question 18

What have Canadians inherited?

Answer 18

The oldest constitutional tradition in the world

Question 19

What do Candian institutions uphold a commitment to?

Answer 19

Peace
Order
Good Government

Question 20

What is Canada’s original constitutional document called and what year?

Answer 20

British North America act,1867

Question 21

What enabled Canadians to build a prosperous society in a rugged environment?

Answer 21

Belief in ordered liberty,
enterprise,
hard work
and fairplay

Question 22

What have poets sometimes called Canada?

Answer 22

The Great Dominion

Question 23

Who are the three founding peoples of Canada?

Answer 23

British, French, and Aboriginals.

Question 24

Where did Aboriginals come from

Answer 24

Asia many thousands of years ago

Question 25

What was native culture rooted in?

Answer 25

Religious beliefs about the Creator, the natural environment and each other.

Question 26

Where are Aboriginal treaty rights?

Answer 26

In the constitution

Question 27

When were aboriginal territorial rights first guaranteed?

Answer 27

Royal Proclamation of 1763 by George III

Question 28

Were treaties always fully respected?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

What bad thing did the federal government do between the 1800s and 1980?

Answer 29

Placed aboriginal children in in residential schools to educate and assimilate the into mainstream Canadian culture.

Question 30

When did Canada formally apologize for the residential schools?

Answer 30

2008

Question 31

What do Aboriginals enjoy in today's Canada

Answer 31

Renewed pride and confidence and have made significant achievements in agriculture, the environment, business and art.

Question 32

What three distinct groups does the term Aboriginal refer to today?

Answer 32

Indian, Inuit and Metis

Question 33

What percent of First Nations live on reserves?

Answer 33

about 1/2

Question 34

When did the term first nations start to be used for Indians?

Answer 34

1970's

Question 35

Roughly how many communities are on reserves?

Answer 35

about 600

Question 36

when was John Buchanan, 1st Baron of tweedsmuir GG

Answer 36

1935-40

Question 37

What did John Buchanan say?

Answer 37

basically unity in diversity

Question 38

What does Inuit mean?

Answer 38

the people

Question 39

where to Inuit live?

Answer 39

small scattered groups in the arctic

Question 40

what enables then to live in the harshest environments on earth?

Answer 40

knowledge of land sea and wildlife

Question 41

Who are Metis?

Answer 41

a distinct group of European and Aboriginal ancestry

Question 42

What people does mainstream Canadian society stem from?

Answer 42

People of English and French ancestry

Question 43

What defines day to day life for most people?

Answer 43

English and French

Question 44

How many Anglophones are there?

Answer 44

18 million

Question 45

How many Francophones are there?

Answer 45

7 million

Question 46

How many francophones live in Ontario, New Brunswick and Manitoba?

Answer 46

1 million

Question 47

What is the only official Bilingual province?

Answer 47

New Brunswick

Question 48

Who are the Arcadians?

Answer 48

Descendents of French colonists who first settled in what is now the Maritime provincesin 1604

Question 49

What is the percentage breakdown of Aboriginals?

Answer 49

65% First nations, 30% Metis, 4% inuit

Question 50

When and why were the Arcadians deported?

Answer 50

between1755 and 1763 due to teh war between England and France

Question 51

Roughl;y how many Arcadians were deported?

Answer 51

2/3rds

Question 52

What was the Great Upheaval

Answer 52

the deportation of Arcadians

Question 53

Who are most Quebecers descended from?

Answer 53

about 8500 French settlers in the 1600s and 1700s

Question 54

When was the Qubecois recognised as forming a nation with in a united Canada?

Answer 54

2006

Question 55

How many Anglo-Quebecers are there and how long is their heratige?

Answer 55

1 million for 250 years

Question 56

What are newcomers to Canada expected to embrace?

Answer 56

Democratic principles such as the rule of law.

Question 57

How was the basic way of life in Canada established?

Answer 57

by hundreds of thousands of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish settlers, soldiers and migrants from the 1600s to the 20th century

Question 58

What are Anglophones generally refereed to as?

Answer 58

English Canadians

Question 59

Where were the majority of Canadians born, and how long as this been the case?

Answer 59

in Canada and has been true since the 1800s

Question 60

What is Canada often referred to as?

Answer 60

a land of immigrants

Question 61

Where have most immigrants come from since the 1970s?

Answer 61

Asian countries

Question 62

What languages are the second most often spoken at home in Vancouver 13% and Toronto7%?

Answer 62

Chinese

Question 63

do Gays and Lesbians enjoy full protection under the law including the right to civil marriage?

Answer 63

yes