BUSAD 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Reverse Discrimination, Sunset Provision
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Equal opportunity: giving everyone a fair chance to have a job. Affirmative action: modified hiring policy, where government has recognized that certain groups have been systematically denied access to certain rights: they will receive preference to help; i. e. minority before white dude. Reverse discrimination: discrimination against a majority group in favor of a minority or historically disadvantaged group. Before the bna act of 1982, canadian was governed by parliamentary supremacy. Entrenched rights, meaning that they can be changed (amended) only in the same way that the act can be amended (by agreement between the federal and provincial governments) Applies to the parliament and government of canada, including the territories. Applies to the legislature and government of each province. Protected rights: fundamental freedoms: freedom of religion, thought and expression, press and other media, right to assemble and associate, democratic rights: right to vote for elected members of house of commons or national.
