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Chapter 7 Study Guide

Chapter 7 discusses the evolution of fairness in Canada, highlighting the role of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in protecting individual and collective rights, particularly for minorities. It outlines historical injustices and the importance of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Charter. The chapter also mentions the collective rights of francophone and aboriginal peoples, exemplified by the signing of La Traite de la Grand Paix de Montreal and the creation of Nunavut by the Inuit.

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Chapter 7 Study Guide

Chapter 7 discusses the evolution of fairness in Canada, highlighting the role of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in protecting individual and collective rights, particularly for minorities. It outlines historical injustices and the importance of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Charter. The chapter also mentions the collective rights of francophone and aboriginal peoples, exemplified by the signing of La Traite de la Grand Paix de Montreal and the creation of Nunavut by the Inuit.

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Chapter 7

Making a Just and Fair Canada

You are responsible for knowing the answers to the following questions
as well as the meanings of the underlined words. Pay attention as
well to the italicized words.

●​ How does the Charter of Rights and Freedoms make Canada


a fair society?
●​ Identify and describe the Individual Rights and Collective
Rights protected in the Charter.
●​ Why is it important that the Charter protects the rights and
freedoms of minorities?
●​ How are our Constitutional Rights protected?
●​ What is the role and structure of the Supreme Court?
●​ Understand Charter cases and the appeal process.

Today Canada is a fair society but that has not always been the case. Our
definition of fairness has changed over time. Some groups that were treated
unfairly by today’s standards are:
●​ Chinese immigrant ‘head tax’
●​ Japanese internment during the World Wars
●​ Discrimination based on gender, race, religion
●​ Restricting political parties
●​ Restricting land ownership
●​ Limiting Democratic Rights

The prelude to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was the
Canadian Bill of Rights passed in 1960, and then later on the Canadian
Human Rights Act passed in 1977. The Charter finally allowed our rights to
be entrenched in our constitution.

Sometimes the rights granted by the Charter can be in conflict with the laws
of our nation, cities, and provinces. The courts are often called upon to
interpret the Charter. People have also had to appeal their cases before a
higher court before they are treated fairly. The highest court in Canada is
called the Supreme Court of Canada.

Most rights in the Charter pertain to the individual. Two groups in Canada
have been granted special protection of their collective rights under the
Charter. They are francophone and aboriginal peoples.

The first example of protection of collective rights in Canada, came with the
signing of La Traite de la Grand Paix de Montreal. The French and fur
traders became allies with some aboriginal groups who were not part of the
Iroquois Confederacy, as a result they were often at war with each other. In
1700 Louis-Hector de Calliere who was governor of New France decided
that they needed to live peacefully with each other in order to make progress.
The Europeans and aboriginals sent ambassadors to negotiate the treaty.
Because the first-nations used consensus in their decisions at the Grand
Council their diplomacy allowed for the treaty to be made quickly.

It was signed on August 4, 1701 and said:


●​ The nations agreed to not make war on each other
●​ The nations agreed they could use all the hunting grounds north and
west of Lake Ontario
●​ In case of future disagreements the French governmor would have the
responsibility to settle them

A group of aboriginal people that recently used their collective rights


granted by the Charter were the Inuit.They held a plebiscite to decide if
their territorial boundaries should be redrawn.The result of the vote was
the creation of the new territory of Nunavut.

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