Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Fundamental rights: having the freedom to express your own opinion, chose your religion, organize peaceful meetings, associate with any person or group.
Ex. You can choose whatever religion you want.






Legal rights: The right to be free of imprisonment, search and seizure without reasons backed by law and evidence. The right to a fair and quick public trial by an impartial court that assumes that you are innocent until proven guilty.
Ex. Being able to be free





Mobility Rights: the right each Canadian has to move anywhere in Canada and the right to stay in, enter, or leave Canada.
Ex. You can move where ever you want in Canada.







Democratic Rights: The right to vote for members of the house of Commons and of provincial legislation. The right to vote for a new government at least every five years.
Ex. You can vote for whichever party you want







Equality Rights: The right to be free of discrimination because of race, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, or mental or physical disability.
Ex. not getting discriminated against because of colour, gender, religion, etc.





Discrimination: The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex
Ex.Getting discriminated against because of colour, religion, being different, etc.






Prejudice:  An adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
Ex. being bias even though you do not know the facts.





Diversity: the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.
Ex. being different, unlike other people





Constitution: a special set of laws that establish a framework of governance.
Ex. the basic "rule book"for Canadian politics.





Indian Act: Federal legislation related to the rights and status of First Nations people ("status Indians"), first passed in1876 and amended several times.
Ex. Making sure First Nations people are treated fairly.





Labour Unions: An organization of workers that acts to protect workers' rights and interests.
Ex. People who work to protect workers rights.

Chapter Two- Criminal Justice Vocabulary

Chapter Two- Criminal Justice Vocabulary

Fair/ Equitable- Governed by rules that apply to everyone, taking into account individual needs and circumstances.

Ex. If someone has a disability you have to treat them fair, but they may need more help to make it fair for them.

Justice System-  The institutions and procedures for applying laws in a society.

Ex. The court, they apply laws.

Justice-applying laws

Ex. Making laws to make places safer.

Legislation-laws created through the legislative process.

Ex. In order for a law to be created it has to go through the house of Commons and the Senate, then signed by the Governor General.

Validity- Reliability, based on critical assessment of source, facts and bias.

Ex. People who knows you can decide if your a reliable because of past experiences with you.

Community Service- Help in the community preformed as part of a sentence, such as assisting with a community clean-up or food bank.

Ex. People picking up garbage on the side of the rode.

Criminal Record-  A permanent record of breaking the law, which is public information. A criminal record can bar you from some jobs, volunteer positions and travel to other countries.

Ex. If you have stole something and it was on record, you may not be allowed on the United States.

 
Sentence-  A consequence for a crime, such as imprisonment, determined by a court of law.

Ex. Getting in jail because of a crime.

Rehabilitation-  To instill positive behaviors and attitudes.

Ex. Once you get out of jail you may need to be rehabilitated to make sure you don't do that stuff again.

Reintegration- To make part of again.

Ex. Once you have committed a crime and served your jail time, you are reintegrated back in to society.

I would rather be able to talk but say everything that comes to my mind because i couldn't stand not being able to talk at all. Also I could just explain to people that I might say things that are offensive and please just ignore them.

Air Canada Grounds Threat of Strike

Who: Air Canada flight attendants.

What: The flight attendants were threatening to go on strike.

Where: Montreal

When: Thursday October 13, 2011

Why: The flight attendants thought they were getting treated unfair.

How does it impact my life: If i was going to be taking an Air Canada flight I might not have been able to get to my destination on time if there was no flight attendants.

How does it impact Canada: Lots of people probably were really worried that they might not make it to their destination on time.

Social 9D Current Event #1

Border Patrol Abuses Widespread

Who: American Border Guards.

What: Abusing Mexicans who tried to come across the border illegally.

Where: Arizona.

When: In 2006, but they have released all the information September 22, 2011.

Why: Because they Border Guards put them in border custody because they were trying to cross illegally but they didn't know they were abusing them.

How Does it Impact My life: Knowing that people are not going to be in the US illegally.

How Does It Impact Canada: Canada knows that the states are catching people trying to jump the border and Canada doesn't have to worry about them coming in to Canada as well.

Social 9D Definitions

Issues: topics that connect to citizenship, identity and quality of life, and on which well-informed people have different views and perspectives.

Ex- A conflict between people; arguing

Perspective: values and ideas shared by people with a common language, culture and history.

Ex- teacher don't want cell phones in school.

 

Point of View: opinions and preferences of an individual based on personal experiences.

Ex. An individual thinking the ogo pogo monster is real.

Quality of Life: The term quality of life is used to evaluate the general well-being of individuals in society.

Ex.- Not having facebook would ruin my quality of life

Governance: the process of governing.
Ex.- people who put in rules for different sections of government.

Political System: the structure of government.

Ex.- The prime minister is the head of the country.

Executive Branch: the part of government responsible for putting laws into action.
Ex.-these people put the distracted drivers law in action.

Judicial Branch: the part of government that interprets and applies the law by making legal judgements.
Ex.- they make the laws.

Constituent: someone who lives in a riding and is represented by an elected official from that riding.
Ex.- A City/Province broken up into areas represented by a leader.

Minorities: groups in society who do not form the majority of the population.

Ex.- Immigrants who live in Lethbridge.

Accountable: answerable to someone for your actions; observable,transparent.
Ex.- if you make a mistake your accountable and will take the blame.

Bias: an opinion based on unchallenged assumptions.
Ex.- Teenagers think parents are unfair, and parents think they are just protecting their child.