EDUC 446 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Adversarial System, Coutume, Provincial Superior
7 Sep 2016
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Chapter 2 historical develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of ca(cid:374)ada"s political/legal. Understand the development of canadian courts and laws. Relate the circumstances under which canada inherited the common law. Explain that canada is a bi-jural country. Identify early aboriginal, french, and british legal systems. Some committee structures, based on family groups, stable methods of governing. Strong traditions on oral teachings, passing on stories to be interpreted and applied to new cases. Priority on kindness, sharing and peace; if any wrongdoings, response is to teach, counsel, or real; only in the most extreme cases might the individual be banished or killed. Responsibility for wrongs are shared collectively, consequences on individual and his family. Europeans entered into fur trade with aboriginal people, establishing treaties and alliances, needed their help during settlements. 1871 canadian government tried to assimilate aboriginals into caucasian majority, could not vote unless they became canadians, removed children from villages into residential school to rid them of their nativeness.
