Transcript COLLECTIVE RIGHTS - Morinville Community High School

COLLECTIVE RIGHTS
Chapter 4 Review
Rights guaranteed to specific groups in
Canadian society for historical and
constitutional reasons.
Collective Rights
To validate and express commitment to
something
affirm
An annual payment
annuity
Who are the Numbered Treaties
agreements between?
The Queen and First Nations
What year was the Indian Act passed and
what is it?
1876 - federal legislation related to the
rights and status of First Nations
peoples.
In 1879 Canada’s government
commissioned MP Nicholas Davin to
recommend how to provide First
Nations with education and to assimilate
them at the same time.
(see page 131)
• What did the Davin report in 1879
recommend?
• Residential Schools. These
residential schools removed children
from their families and disrupted
their connections to their languages,
cultures and identities.
The belief that one’s culture is superior to
all other cultures.
ethnocentrism
To become part of a different culture.
assimilate
A group that speaks one of Canada’s
official languages and that does not
make up the majority population of a
province or territory.
Official language minority
Which is the only province of Canada that
is officially a bilingual province?
New Brunswick
What did the Manitoba Schools Act do in
1890?
- abolished public funding for Catholic
schools
- Made Manitoba an officially English-only
province
Independence as a people, with a right to
self-government.
Sovereignty
This Quebec law (1977) sets down rules
for protecting and promoting the use of
the French language in Quebec.
Bill 101: Charter of the French Language
Rights with origins in fundamental justice
Inherent rights
In Metis history, a document that could be
exchanged for land and that was offered
to the Metis at the time the Numbered
Treaties were negotiated.
scrip
In 1990, Alberta’s government enacted
legislation that gave the Metis what?
A permanent land base
Right to manage their own affairs
Rights to participate in the development of
oil and gas in settlement lands
What is Michif?
A Metis language
Why did the Metis fight in the Red River
and the Northwest Resistance?
To try to protect land and language rights
He led the Northwest Resistance and was
tried and hung for treason in 1885
Louis Riel
Why was the Constitution Act of 1982
significant for the Metis people?
It included section35, which recognizes
the Metis as one of Canada’s
Aboriginal peoples with rights.
Who are the Aboriginal people of
Canada?
First Nations
Inuit
Metis
What was a significant Supreme Court
decision in 2003 that supported Metis
identity?
It ruled that the Metis have the right to
hunt and fish as one of Canada’s
Aboriginal peoples under the
constitution.
The authority to make decisions.
autonomy
Self-government for Aboriginal peoples
means that they look after what?
It deals only with matters that directly
affect the daily lives of the people education, language, culture, economic
development, control of land and water
In 1969, which policy recommended that
Aboriginal people be assimilated into
mainstream Canadian society.
The White Paper on Indian policy
This Manitoba MLA stalled debated on
the ratification of the Meech Lake
Accord in 1990. This brought nationwide attention to the demands of First
Nations peoples for a clarification of
their rights.
Elijah Harper
These deal with claims that the
government did not fulfill its obligations
related to a treaty or other legal
agreement with a First Nation. These
claims seek money, correction of the
problem by the federal government or
other benefits.
Specific Claims
These are claims regarding the traditional
use and occupancy of the land by
Aboriginal peoples. Ownership of land,
hunting and fishing rights, or financial
compensation may be sought.
Comprehensive claims
What territory was created as recognition
of the collective rights of a group of
Canada’s northern peoples? In what
year?
Nunavut - 1999
What Act in 1774 allowed religious
freedom for Roman Catholics, the
preservation of French civil law and the
recognition of French language in use.
Quebec Act
This allows a provincial government to
override claims made using some
sections of the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms.
Notwithstanding clause