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| What is the Dominion Elections Act? |
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| It gave women in canada the right to vote and right to be elected to Parliament in 1920 |
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| What year did the Supreme Court of Canada overruled that women were indeed 'persons'? |
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| When did the legislation abolish the favour of hiring men? |
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| What year was the protection of women's rights enshrined in the Charter? |
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| In 1982, "equally to male and female persons" |
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| When did the government pass the Indian Act? |
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| What did the Indian Act do? |
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| it banned some traditional cultural practices. It replaced traditional Aboriginal self-gov. with elected band coucils and rejected Aboriginal ways of justice. |
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| Meech Lake Accord and what year? |
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| agreement of adress Aboriginal rights in section 25 of the Charter. It did not recognize First Nations as founding partners of Canada. 1987 |
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| siginificance of the white paper and what year? |
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| called for withdrawal of the Indian Act. It proposed to enable the Indian people to be free to develop Indian culture in an environment of legal, social and economic equility with other Canadians. 1969 |
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| What government release the White paper? |
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| Significance of Calder Decision and what year did it take place? |
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| it reversed the stand it took in the white paper since 1973 |
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| how were Japanese Canadians victims? |
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| they were slave workers for the railway. got paid less the fifty percent than the usual pay. They were evacuated from homes and put into camps. After war, they had no more homes and some of them were sent back to Japan. |
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| How were UkrANIAN Canadians victims in wartime? |
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| 5000 Ukranians were imprisoned because they were thought as enemy aliens |
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| Prime Minister King's immigration policy affected what? |
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| 250000 person from europe. 37500 refugees of hungarians. |
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| When did Canada officially ended it's discriminatory immigration practices? |
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| how does the point system work? |
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| look at applicants education, skills, personal qualities such as resourcefulness and motivation and occupational demand. |
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| people who are not allowed to enter Canada |
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| person suffering from illness harmful to community, criminal, potential or known terrorist, person convicted of war crimes, or is a criminal or threatening to society. |
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| When did Pierre Trudeau became justice minister? and what is his significance? |
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| He rewrote abortion and prostitution laws. He decriminalized homosexuality. |
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| stonewall why is it significant? |
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| it was the first time gay people rebelled against police men. |
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| what changes were made to the Canadian Human Rights Act? and when it was modified? |
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| the federal gov. added 'sexual orientation; to the Act. Gay men and lesbians are now protected from discrimination in federal government matters. 1996 |
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| siginificnace of the civil marriage act and when |
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| it legalized same-sex marriage in Canada. July 2005 |
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| it means enter and leaving a place; residence, business or gov. institution. |
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| What types of conditions are legal disabilities? |
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| Brain injury, Deafness, Epilipsy, mental illness, developmental disability, behaviour problems, physical disability, substance abuse, learning problems, blindness and obesity. |
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| when did mandatory retirement end? |
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| is mandatory retirement discriminatory? |
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| yes because an employee cannot make a hiring, training, promotion or termination decision on the basis of age. |
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| is mandatory retirement discriminatory? |
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| yes because an employee cannot make a hiring, training, promotion or termination decision on the basis of age. |
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| within what time period must a human rights complaint be filed? |
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| remedies under human rights law |
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| example; respondant must issue a letter of apology to the complainent, pay for lost wages or benefits or pay money for mental anguish |
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| what is the purpose of human rights law? |
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| not to punish the respondant but refers to compensate the victim of discrimination and prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.v |
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