Here are your tasks:
1.Role play: Limiting free speech
Practise listening and speaking out loud by yourself.
Then practise role playing with a partner.
2.Canadian Charter: Questions PDF
Publish your answers to the questions.
Leave a comment on two of your classmates' answers.
Learning about Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms
A. 1. Does your home country have freedom of speech? YES
B. What does freedom of speech mean in Canada?
1. You can say bad things about the government to your friend. YES
2. You can say bad things about the government to a group in a public place. YES
3. You can write bad things about the government in the newspaper. YES
4. You can write bad things about a person you know in the newspaper. YES
5. You can write bad things about a group of people in the newspaper. YES
C. Can freedom of speech be dangerous sometimes? YES
D. Does your home country have freedom of religion? YES
E. How are Canada’s speech laws different from your home country?
I do not know the detail,maybe Canada's speech laws are wider.
3.Do this exercise: Audio and MCQ.
Find a website containing the text of the Charter, and copy out the first 5 points. (If you have asked a partner and still cannot find it, click here.)
CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law:
Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms
Marginal note:Rights and freedoms in Canada
1. The
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Fundamental Freedoms
Marginal note:Fundamental freedoms
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
Democratic Rights
Marginal note:Democratic rights of citizens
3. Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein.
Marginal note:Maximum duration of legislative bodies
4. (1) No House of Commons and no legislative assembly shall continue for longer than five years from the date fixed for the return of the writs at a general election of its members.
(81)
Marginal note:Continuation in special circumstances
(2) In time of real or apprehended war, invasion or insurrection, a House of Commons may be continued by Parliament and a legislative assembly may be continued by the legislature beyond five years if such continuation is not opposed by the votes of more than one-third of the members of the House of Commons or the legislative assembly, as the case may be.
(82)
Marginal note:Annual sitting of legislative bodies
5. There shall be a sitting of Parliament and of each legislature at least once every twelve months.
(83)
