SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Canadian Human Rights Act, White Privilege, Hegemonic Masculinity
15 Apr 2014
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Legislative powers are split into federal and provincial. Federal gov"t and provincial gov"t can"t rule on laws in opposite jurisdictions. A group of people that can make laws for a province or country, authorize jurisdiction of courts, qualify their members, oversee bureaucratic activities. Conflict-management: management instead of resolution, deliberate without a decision. Integrative functions: support for executive and judicial systems. Cabinet responsible for house of commons, h. of c. responsible for people in elections. Pass legislation with respect to aboriginal people and lands reserved for them. Aboriginal rights are constitutionally protected, absolute in canadian law. Gov"t wanted to assimilate aboriginals through: creation of reservations, band councils instead of tribal gov"t, rules on how indians are classified. Goal was to assimilate aboriginals into general population. Indians didn"t have right to vote until 1960, loss of status to indians with a university degree or non- Indian act- only legislation in the world targeted to a specific racial group.
