POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - View Camera, Negative And Positive Rights, English Canada
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Courts don"t get involved in the principle of responsible gov. because it"s prerogative. Religious and gender rights: ex- the women not able to get a guy cut by a muslim barber at a parlor. In order for it to be an issue, it needs to be the government violating it. It"s a personal matter, so the go can"t get involved. Another ex- eldrige was a deaf man who felt discriminated that the ppl in the hospital can"t communicate with him through sign. The hospital was an extended arm of the gov. thus it is a gov. issue: the crf & the constitutional order. The 1st way is that it was centralizing, americanising and legalizing. Testing cruise missiles was harming the safety of the individual. The charter in the sense of legalizing canada"s political life expands liberty by restricts democracy. Legalizing canada"s political order may be a draw back.
