POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: October Crisis, Japanese Canadians
Document Summary
Prime minister pierre eliot trudeau felt the need to protect the rights of citizens even in times of crisis constitutionally entrenched. Historical large scale violation of rights by state e. g. war measusres act interment of japanese canadians, flq crisis, votes denied certain groups of people. Mainly civil political rights no real reference to social rights other than secuirty of person": types of freedoms or rights, fundamental freedoms: section 2 conscience, religion, thought, press, assembly and association, democratic rights sec. 3-5 rights to vote, parl"t must meet: mobility rights sec. 6 move around canada and in and out of. Canada: legal rights (sec 7 14) Sec 8 14 right against unreasonable serach, seizure, arrest, cruel tratement, right of silence: equality rights sec. 15 equal protection wihntout discrimination based on race, sex, age. *does not preclude affirmative action programmes: linguistic rights sec 16-23.
