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C1. Human Rights: explain the legal importance of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Ontario Human Rights Code and describe, in general, the procedures for resolving human rights complaints (FOCUS ON: Legal Significance; Interrelationships; Legal Perspective)
C2. Development of Human Rights Law: explain the relevance of various legal issues and societal factors to the development of human rights law in Canada (FOCUS ON: Legal Significance; Continuity and Change; Legal Perspective)
THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 11 AND 12 | Canadian and World Studies
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
C1. Human Rights
FOCUS ON: Legal Significance; Interrelationships; Legal Perspective
By the end of this course, students will:
C1.1 identify some of the rights and freedoms protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Ontario Human Rights Code and their corresponding responsibilities or obligations (e.g., the right to vote and the responsibility to vote; the right to a jury trial and the responsibility to serve on a jury; language rights and the responsibility to respect the language rights of others)
Sample question: “Should people be legally required to vote in an election?”
C1.2 identify barriers to the equal enjoyment of human rights in Canada (e.g., discrimination on grounds of disability, class, age, race, ethnocultural background, religion, language, gender, or gender identity; discrimination resulting from geographic isolation, unequal access to education) and the human rights issues raised by various historical and contemporary instances where the rights
of different groups were violated (e.g., Canada’s Chinese Head Tax laws, 1885, 1900, 1903, and the
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1923; the 1928 Canadian Supreme Court ruling that women were not eligible for Senate appointments; the residential schools system; the“Sixties Scoop”of Aboriginal children; the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II; Attorney General of Canada
v. Lavell, 1974, and its aftermath in the 1985 amendment to section 12(1)(b) of the Indian Act; the 2007 Asian Canadian anglers case)
Sample questions: “What human rights issues were raised in the Persons Case? What was the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in that case? How and why was this ruling overturned?”
C1.3 explain the procedures for resolving com- plaints about human rights violations (e.g., identifying the violation, determining the appropriate forum for resolution, obtaining representation [if necessary or appropriate], presenting a case)
Sample questions: “Why are there different forums for the resolution of human rights violations? How is the appropriate forum for a case determined?”
C1.4 explain how human rights legislation can conflict with other legislation (e.g., the Criminal Code offence of child pornography versus the Charter guarantee of freedom of expression; the Charter section 2 right to freedom of religion versus the Charter section 7 guarantee of the right to life)
Sample question: “Why might there be a conflict between the Charter guarantee of the right to life and the rights of parents to refuse medical treatment such as blood transfusions for their child on religious grounds?”
C1.5 analyse situations in which a right or freedom may be limited in Canadian law (e.g., Charter section 1 [“limitation clause”] has been used to limit the right to free expression in cases of“hate speech”; Charter section 33 [“notwithstanding clause”] has been used to uphold limitations
in English language rights in Quebec; Charter section 25, which states that the Charter cannot override existing Aboriginal rights and freedoms)
C. HUMAN RIGHTS OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
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