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Unit 2: Rights and Freedoms

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Chapter 4: Canadian Constitutional Law

To learn more about the joint management of fisheries, visit www.gov.nf.ca.

For the full text of the United Nations decision in the Waldman case, visit www.pch.gc.ca.

Learn more about Toronto’s tent city at www.cbc.ca.

Find out more about the “persons” case at www.collectionscanada.ca.

For background information on the Supreme Court of Canada, visit www.cbc.ca/news/background/supremecourt.

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Read the Canadian Bill of Rights at http://laws.justice.gc.ca.

For a guide to the 20th anniversary edition of the Charter, check www.20years.ca.

Learn more about the Charter and landmark cases at www.cbc.ca/news/features/constitution.

To learn more about John Sharpe and Canada’s pornography law, visit www.cbc.ca/news.

For more information on judicial appointments, visit http://cjc-ccm.gc.ca (Canadian Judicial Council).

For more on the “two Michaels” and the fight for gay rights in Canada, visit http://archives.cbc.ca

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For more on the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, visit www.rightsofchildren.ca.

For more on factors regarding the internment of Japanese-Canadians, visit http://members.tripod.com/intern_canada.

For more on factors regarding the internment of Ukrainian-Canadians, visit www.infoukes.com/history.

For more on a variety of Canadian human rights Web sites, visit www.uottawa.ca/hrrec.

For more information on the Ontario Human Rights Commission and its issues, visit www.ohrc.on.ca.

To find out more about important rulings in the development of human rights in Canada, visit www.justice.gc.ca.

For an equality rights glossary, visit www.gnb.ca/hrc-cdp.

For details on the Court Challenges Program, visit www.ccppcj.ca.

To learn more about the Vriend case and gay rights, visit www.egale.ca.

To learn more about the Supreme Court and equality rights in 1997, visit www.robarts.yorku.ca/canadawatch.

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Learn one historian’s view of the development of language laws to protect the French language in Quebec at http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory.

For background on language rights in Quebec, visit http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bill101/.

To learn more about the second Quebec referendum, visit http://archives.cbc.ca.

For more information on the Clarity Act, visit http://laws.justice.gc.ca.

To learn more about Aboriginal treaties, law, and land claims, visit www.cln.org.

To find out more about the Assembly of First Nations, go to www.afn.ca and www.cbc.ca/news/background/aboriginals.

To learn more about the Nisga’a Agreement, visit www.ainc-inac.gc.ca.

To find out more about the fishing dispute at Burnt Church, go to www.cbc.ca/news/background/fishing.

Learn more about the Marshall decision and the Maritime Canadian fishery at www.rism.org.

Learn more about the ODA Committee at www.odacommittee.net.

Learn about LEAF at www.leaf.ca.

Read the Ontarians with Disabilities Act at www.e-laws.gov.on.ca.

Federal statutes may be searched at laws.justice.gc.ca; Ontario statutes may be searched at www.canlii.org/on/laws/.

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