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	Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Constitutional Act, 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.
		This Charter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians.
		A reference in this Charter to a Province or to the legislative assembly or legislature of a province shall be deemed to include a reference to the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, or to the appropriate legislative authority thereof, as the case may be.
	laws.justice.gc.ca /en/const/annex_e.html (3659 words)

	Embassy Washington
		The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees some of the same rights, called "fundamental freedoms," that are protected in the U.S. Bill of Rights: freedom of conscience and religion; freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press; freedom of peaceful assembly; and freedom of association.
		The first section of the Charter states that its guarantees are "subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society," a qualification not found in the U.S. Constitution.
		Inclusion of the Charter in the Constitution marked a departure from the principle of parliamentary supremacy and an expansion of the role of the courts as federal and provincial laws must now conform to the Charter as well as to the division of powers.
	www.canadianembassy.org /government/constitution-en.asp (1559 words)

	Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
		Section 2 of the Charter protects "fundamental freedoms." These freedoms include the freedom of: (a) conscience and religion; (b) thought and expression; (c) assembly(for example, the right to get together and demonstrate against a government policy); (d) association (for example, the right to join a political party or an environmental group).
		Section 1 of the Charter allows the government to limit the rights and freedoms found in the Charter.
		Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (U.K.), 1982, c.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecordCanada/vol1/guide-part_9.htm (1722 words)

	Canadian Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Section 6 – response to fear that provincial governments were undermining the idea and practice of Canadian citizenship by imposing residency requirements particularly in social welfare eligibility and in Quebec education.
		Charter extends the principle to prohibit discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origins, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability.
		Section 1 – The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
	publish.uwo.ca /~jnewman/canadian_constitution.htm (1682 words)

	Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank
		The case was brought to the court by the Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law, and was supported by the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies in the capacity of intervenors.
		The groups indicated that the provision violates section 7 of the Charter that guarantees security of the person, section 12 that guarantees freedom from cruel and unusual treatment or punishment, and section15 that assures equality before and under the law, regardless of, inter alia, age.
		A violation of section 7 protections of personal security was found; however, the court held that this violation was justified under section 1 of the Charter that allows for contraventions that are in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.
	www.hri.ca /tribune/viewArticle.asp?ID=2616 (1005 words)

	LifeSite Special Report - Winnipeg’s Museum For Human Rights: Canada’s $300 Million Temple of Ideology
		Right at the heart of Canada a host of the most influential, wealthy and socially liberal Canadians and world leaders are planning to construct the most powerful propaganda institute the country has yet seen.
		The Charter is an amalgamation of various rights which in the very act of being placed in writing are stripped of their breath and soul and instead exist in a permanent and antagonistic tension with one another.
		That is, none of the rights in the charter are absolute, and all are left completely open to the interpretation of a small number of un-elected judges who enjoy years of unaccountability with extended periods of tenure.
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2005/jul/050701a.html (3128 words)

	Jewish NGOs, Human Rights, and Public Advocacy: A Comparative Inquiry - Irwin Cotler
		On the one hand, freedom of religion is one of the most fundamental of human rights - the primacy of the rights constitutionalized in both the American Bill of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, anchored in the corpus of contemporary international law.
		With the adoption of the Charter of Rights in 1982, and the constitutionalization of rights in Canada, an historical transformation occurred.
		The UN Charter did however become the first international agreement to incorporate the idea of universal human rights, and one of the world organization's principal purposes was to encourage "respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion" (Article 1).
	www.jcpa.org /cjc/cjc-cotler-f99.htm (10518 words)

	Human Rights Program
		Section 15 prohibits discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability, or analogous groups, which has been interpreted to include sexual orientation.
		Section 28 provides: "Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms referred to it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons." The Charter generally governs the relationships between governments (federal, provincial and municipal) and individuals rather than between individuals.
		Canada's promotion of gender equality is based on a belief that equal rights for women are an essential component of progress on human rights and democratic development, and sustainable development will only be achieved if women are able to participate as equal decision makers in, and beneficiaries of, that development.
	www.pch.gc.ca /progs/pdp-hrp/docs/cedaw5/over_e.cfm (3644 words)

	Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Civil Rights in Canada
		Parliament passed the Bill of Rights in 1960, as one means of protecting Canadians from government excesses.
		The entrenchment in 1982 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is probably the most important development in Canadian law this century.
		The full text of all Supreme Court of Canada decisions relating to the Charter of Rights, from 1983 to present, is now available on-line thanks to the Centre de recherche en droit public at the Universite de Montreal.
	www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/rights.html (1079 words)

	the peak (15/3/1999) letters: The freedom to throw pies
		However, the need for Canadians to be aware of the actions of their own police force and elected officials-carried out in the name of 'democracy'-should supercede the concern with proper "question and answer etiquette".
		Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees us the right to freedom of expression.
		When the government and the mainstream media allow only one side of the story to be told, it is both our right and responsibility to find creative ways to get another side of the story into the public arena.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/99-1/issue10/pies.html (330 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Adam is seeking to intervene in two potentially controversial cases before the Supreme Court, both of which centre on Bill 101's restrictions on the right to attend English schools in Quebec.
		In her motion, however, Adam says she will argue the right of equality under the law has to be weighed against Section 23 of the charter of rights, which guarantees the right of French and English linguistic minorities to schooling in their own languages.
		Adam first acknowledges the French Language Charter's provision requiring a child to have completed the majority of their education in English is contrary to the Canadian charter of rights.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art3133.txt (481 words)

	Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - CGR Community
		I have two questions concerning the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
		When the Charter was drafted, the Supreme Court because the final authority on what was lawful in government, instead of the House of Commons.
		However, Section 33 was added to give Parliament the right to override certain portions of the Charter, and even then, only for five years, unless renewed, in an attempt to strike a balance between the two branches.
	www.christianguitar.org /forums/showthread.php?t=118515 (491 words)

	Public Address \| Speaker
		The Canadian Bill of Rights was enacted in 1960, and - as with the New Zealand Bill of Rights - concerns that it would limit the sovereignty of parliament meant that it was not entrenched as supreme law.
		However this resulted in legislation which was widely acknowledged to be ineffective, and consequently the government was impelled to introduce the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982.
		It has come to be regarded as one of the cornerstones of Canadian identity, and has consistently enjoyed widespread support from the Canadian public.
	www.publicaddress.net /default,3023.sm (2033 words)

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		This is a constitutional and legal grey area at present because Section 32 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms stipulates that this constitutional document applies to the federal, provincial and territorial governments, but does not mention Aboriginal governments.
		The second school of thought argues that the Charter should not apply to First Nations’ governments because it is an imposition of western liberal values on their governments that could limit their self-governing authority.
		One option is for the Charter to apply with a caveat that it be done in a manner that is consonant with traditional Aboriginal laws and customs.
	library.usask.ca /theses/available/etd-09022005-102932 (356 words)

	Module 24 - United Nations Mechanisms and ESC Rights
		For the majority of those who struggle for social and economic rights, the proceedings of UN treaty monitoring bodies may seem entirely irrelevant, or to relegate social and economic rights to international 'experts' rather than developing them as a field of domestic rights practice.
		Two of us were sent to Geneva in May of 1998, representing a broad spectrum of Canadian NGOs to brief the pre-sessional Working Group.
		It urged that the Covenant rights be made enforceable within the provinces and territories 'through legislation or policy measures and the establishment of independent and appropriate monitoring and adjudication mechanisms'.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/edumat/IHRIP/circle/modules/module24.htm (2653 words)

	LLRX.com - Doing Legal Research in Canada: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1982, Canada adopted its own Constitution which includes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, an entrenched constitutional document that guarantees certain basic legal rights subject only "to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society" (s.
		Canadian federal and provincial legislation is generally not consolidated by subject matter but is instead published in its official version alphabetically by name of the statute or regulation, unlike the situation with the United States Code and many state codes.
		Thus, in most cases, Canadian employees are entitled to receive either "reasonable notice" or termination or the amount of "statutory notice" set out in the applicable employment legislation.
	www.llrx.com /features/ca_intro.htm (4182 words)

	ca_ph_blair_law_1\|Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms\|Additional Cases\|*Rocket v. Royal College of Dental*
		The advertisement, entitled “New Faces of the Canadian Establishment,” was for Holiday Inns and it focused on the success of the dentists who had already travelled over 300 000 kilometres setting up new dental centres across Canada and the United States.
		The dentists took their case to court, claiming that this section of the regulation violated the guarantee of freedom of expression in s.
		Regarding the first question, the Court of Appeal found that, while freedom of speech is not absolute, commercial speech could be included in the definition of expression under s.
	wps.prenhall.com /ca_ph_blair_law_1/0,5871,396636-,00.utf8.html (455 words)

	The BC Teacher's Strike: Civil Disobedience and Gender - Historical Perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The concept of human rights is the one usually used these days, not simply because ours is a more voluntaristic and humanistic era but because this concept includes many social and economic freedoms which seem important to our age, along with the more traditional concept of freedom as “freedom from” various restraints.
		The concepts of natural and human rights, with all their differences, still have a core of common meaning, namely, that there are certain rights which belong to a man independent of his position in a civil society.
		She was a Canadian delegate to the League of Nations (now the United Nations) in Switzerland and was an elected member of Parliament for Alberta and became the first woman board member of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
	www.malaspina.org /civil_disobedience.htm (1861 words)

	Canadian Conservative Forum - Requested Essay
		Likewise, the Toronto Star is currently under investigation by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for refusing to publish a lengthy letter to the editor by a former president of the Canadian Polish Congress, Toronto District.
		If Section 2(1) of the Alberta human rights act and equivalent sections in other provincial human rights laws are operative, then this legislation imposes a degree of censorship on Canadians that is unprecedented in the peacetime history of parliamentary democracy.
		Section 41.--1(a) of the Ontario Human Rights Code states that where a board of inquiry, after a hearing, finds that a party to a proceeding has infringed a right of a complainant under Part 1 of the code, the board may, by order,
	www.conservativeforum.org /EssaysForm.asp?ID=6248 (2064 words)

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	Article II
		Indigenous peoples have the collective rights that are indispensable to the enjoyment of the individual human rights of their members.
		The states shall ensure for indigenous peoples the full exercise of all rights, and shall adopt in accordance with their constitutional processes such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in this Declaration.
		Article 25: “States parties to the present Charter shall have the duty to promote and ensure through teaching, education, and publication, the respect of the rights and freedoms contained in the present Charter and to see to it that these freedoms and rights as well as corresponding obligations and duties are understood.”
	www.cidh.oas.org /Indigenas/Indigenas.en.01/article.II.htm (2526 words)

	Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/The Constitution of Canada
		More than two dozen documents were included in the 1982 description of the Constitution, and since then six new constitutional amendments have been added to the list.
		It is available in two versions on-line: the plain-English Consensus Report and the legal text.
		The Charlottetown Accord was defeated in two referendums held simultaneously: one was organized by the Quebec government in Quebec, while the federal government organized the referendum in the rest of Canada.
	www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/constitution.html (1185 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Defamation law deals with two competing interests; first, the right to protect one's reputation and secondly, freedom of expression.
		While the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has recently emerged to provide a constitutional dimension to freedom of expression, the fundamental values which underpin defamation have longstanding historical roots.
		This trend is largely driven by a false sense of communicational freedom that is created by the ease with which users can access bulletin boards and Usenet's.The absence of an effective, regulating body with legally enforceable powers, as well as constantly diminishing connectivity and web site establishment costs have further encouraged this problem.
	www.angelfire.com /ca2/defamation/introduction.html (1094 words)

	Thomson Nelson - Political Science -Canadian Politics on the Web/Civil Rights in Canada
		The Canadian Department of Justice so provides a Digest of the Supreme Court's Charter of Rights decisions which provides brief summaries of judicial decisions relevant to each section of the Charter involved.
		Sharpe [2001] ruled that items containing child pornography that were created by an individual solely for their own personal consumption could not be prohibited under the Criminal Code.
		Reference re Provincial Electoral Boundaries [1991] laid down the principle that the right to vote in s.3 of the Charter included the right to 'effective representation' that requires the the size of electoral districts not vary too greatly.
	polisci.nelson.com /rights.html (1188 words)

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