POLS 1000 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Rights and Freedoms
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Canada included: some argue that social rights, or what are sometimes called entitlements, including the right to a job, economic security, public education, decent housing, and adequate health care, should also have the status entrenched constitutional rights. 2: although the charter did not explicitly mention sexual preference in s. 15 on equality rights, court rulings very soon recognized this as an analogous form of discrimination that of race and religion. It is often the case that political conflict is over how an issue should be framed and whether it should be thought of as one involving rights or as an issue that pits interests and values against one another. The pre-charter era: 1867-1981: the constitution act, 1867 contains very few references to the rights and freedoms of. Gouzenko spy affair in 1946: growing concern over civil liberties was shared by some influential groups, including the.