The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is Part I of Schedule B to the Constitution Act, 1982. Contact your member of parliament for a copy.
The technical freedoms protected within the Bill of Rights is found in the First Amendment. The freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly and to petition the government.
found this little bit of data on the subject...In summary, the laying of criminal charges against a member of the House of Commons or Senate carries no immediate legal implication. Even if a member is convicted, he or she can continue to sit, unless sentenced to a term of imprisonment of two years or more. Nonetheless, the House and the Senate retain the power to expel their members who are facing criminal charges or are convicted but not sentenced to a term of imprisonment of two years or more. However, this power is rarely used and certain provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms might protect parliamentarians in such circumstances.
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Yes, you need a Canadian passport. What most people still do not realize is that the commercial airlines will not allow you to board the aircraft without a passport. So it's not just the governments.Even if you travel by land, the US requires you to show a valid passport..............................Hold on, now. The question was about a Canadian Citizen entering Canada. It was not about boarding an aircraft.When you leave the USA and cross the border into Canada, you don't have to show anything to US Customs. You only need a passport to enter the USA.The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the right of a Canadian citizen to enter Canada. A Citizenship Card is proof of Canadian Citizenship. Under the Charter, that is sufficient to be admitted to Canada.
The companies that charter yachts can be found on the Charter World website where hundreds of companies is listed in the website's charter yachts database.
Many rights were not in the original Constitution of the United States. The rights of freedom of speech, religion, assembly, the right to keep and bear arms, freedom from slavery, voting rights, women's rights, and many more were not present. The Bill of Rights added most of these freedoms, but the end of slavery, voting rights, and the rights of women were not established until much later.
The document that functions as the charter for establishing the US Army is the Constitution. The original copy of this charter is found at the National Archives and is on display for parts of the year.
On Charter Cable ESPNU can be seen on channel 310.
Seditious speech is the most hated type of speech. Yet the US Constitution does provide for the protection of seditious speech if it is not found to harmful or disruptive to the rights and freedoms of others.
We don't have a constitution in the sense that the United States does. But we do have some important documents that you might find comparable. Our country was confederated (meaning it got started) with a document called the British North America Act. It essentially outlined our role in the British Monarchy, but also how we would be governed (just like England- with a "parliamentary system"), and what parts of North American were, in fact, British owned. Today all British owned parts of North America are known as Canada. We are self-governed, but techincally (really it's a formality), part of the British kingdom. The parts of the American Consititution which are typically held in the highest esteem, those which outline individual rights and freedoms, are not explicitly found in the BNA. In the early 1980's, it was widely felt in Canada that certain human rights needed to be expressly written. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms followed, and that document allows all of us our personal human rights. How it differs quite a bit from the United States is that the emphasis is not so heavily on the rights of the individual. For example, the coveted First Amendment of the American Constitution regards freedom of speech and religion. In Canada, we do allow freedom of speech and religion (it is explicitly written in the Charter), however, the hate-speech law overrides freedom of speech. This is a fairly significant cultural difference. In Canada, you can say what you want to say, unless it is intended to victimize an individual based on attributes they may have which ARE protected by the charter (ex: protesting gay marriage is permissible; protesting gay PEOPLE is not).
The information that may be found on the "Disaster Charter" homepage is about disaster relief around the world. Current events are displayed as news articles and there is a media gallery as well as recent charter activations.