POLS 211- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 48 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Quebec bound by changes it didn"t approve. Formal equality all provinces treated the same. Substantive equality qb was treated the same. Special joint committee on the constitution of canada. Night of long knives: parliamentary resolutions or declarations, federal-provincial agreements, federal-provincial finance, land claim settlement. Bill of rights, 1960: first federal law consolidating rights and freedoms, limited by virtue of being statute. Charter of rights and freedoms: extended rights from bill, section 10: legal rights, section 28: equality between men and women, section 27: interpretation clause on multicultural heritage . Official languages act, 1969: canada federal gov"t bilingual, minority language education. Freedom of citizenship: freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of peaceful assembly; and, freedom of association. Rights of citizenship: habeas corpus rights, mobility rights, aboriginal rights, official languages rights, minority language education rights, multicultural rights.
