Activity 2 page 3
Completion requirements
Unit 2: Section 2: Workbook 7: Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Read
Read pages 100 to 103 of your textbook as you investigate five examples of human rights issues in Canada.
Make notes of the causes and effects of each the five examples.
In the textbook reading identified above, you identified individual rights that Canadians did not have. You saw how the Indian Act restricted rights and freedoms of First Nations peoples. You saw gender discrimination when women did not have the right to vote. You saw how the government stripped individual rights from Ukrainian-Canadians, Italian-Canadians, and Japanese-Canadians by interning them.
Read
Read pages 105 through 109 of your textbook, Issues for Canadians.
On these pages are four examples of times when the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was used to challenge government decisions that people felt violated their individual rights.
Complete the Informed Response activity by clicking on one of the links below.
Informed Response (Word)
Informed Response (pdf)
Informed Response (Google Doc)
Save your completed response to your Activities folder.
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Going Beyond
Internet Web Search
Investigate countries where rights are restricted. Consider researching the following countries:
- Cuba
- North Korea
- Vietnam
- China
Workbook Summary
In this workbook, you investigated the following questions.
What rights and freedoms do I expect to have in Canada?
How does the Charter protect my individual rights?
Canada has not always been a free and democratic society. Through challenges, injustices, and a desire for fairness and tolerance, Canada has become a nation that protects its citizens. Values and attitudes that shaped our history have also helped to shape Canada today.