In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

While an unlicensed satellite dish can often be identified easily, satellite radio receivers are much more compact and can rarely be easily identified, at least not without flagrantly violating provisions against unreasonable search and seizure in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Canada Act / Constitution Act included the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has also fundamentally changed much of Canadian constitutional law.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms includes provisions such as section 11 ( h ) prohibiting double jeopardy.

In a famous Canadian Charter of Rights case, " Sandra Bell vs. City of Toronto ", 1997, the right to cultivate all native species, even most varieties deemed noxious or allergenic, was upheld as part of the right of free expression.

In Canada, the coming into effect of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1985 saw a shift in the gay rights movement in Canada, as Canadian gays and lesbians moved from liberation to litigious strategies.

Premised on Charter protections and on the notion of the immutability of homosexuality, judicial rulings rapidly advanced rights, including those that compelled the Canadian government to legalize same-sex marriage.

Trudeau wrote and spoke out against both the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord proposals to amend the Canadian constitution, arguing that they would weaken federalism and the Charter of Rights if implemented.

Canadian privacy law is governed federally by multiple acts, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Privacy Act ( Canada ).

Affirmative action programs in Canada are protected from equality rights challenges by s. 15 ( 2 ) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

* Section Eight of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

* Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 1982

* May 25 – Egan v. Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada rules that discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Constitution of Canada includes the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which guarantees many of the same rights as the U. S. constitution, with the notable exceptions of protection against establishment of religion.

It was a predecessor of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the United States Bill of Rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.

A group of 15 competitive female ski jumpers filed a suit against the Vancouver Organizing Committee ( VANOC ) claiming that conducting a men's ski jumping event without a women's event in the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 would be in direct violation of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

It further ruled that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not apply to VANOC.

* The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( 1982 ; Canada ) was created to protect the rights of Canadian citizens from actions and policies of all levels of government.

* The Maritime Provinces, the Maritime Rights Movement and Canadian Federalism

# Constitutional entrenchment of an otherwise statutory English, British, or Canadian document because of subject matter provisions in the amending formula of the Constitution Act, 1982, such as provisions with regard to the monarchy in the English Bill of Rights 1689 or the Act of Settlement 1701.

* Canadian Bill of Rights

They donated $ 100, 000 to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights after a concert they held in Winnipeg on May 24, 2008.

Although some concerned Mohawk citizens have contested the racially-exclusive membership policy, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the Mohawk government may adopt policies it deems necessary to ensure the survival of its people.

* 1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.

* In 1960, the Canadian Bill of Rights becomes law, and Universal suffrage, the right for any Canadian citizen to vote, was finally adopted by John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government.

Multiculturalism is reflected in the law through the Canadian Multiculturalism Act and section 27 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The holiday was initially not dominant in the national calendar ; up to the early 20th century, Canadians thought themselves to be primarily British, being thus less interested in celebrating distinctly Canadian forms of patriotism.

Due to historical and cultural factors, Canadian English and American English retain numerous distinctions from each other, with the differences being most noticeable in the two languages ' written forms.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

On the federal level, the social democratic New Democratic Party now forms the Official Opposition ( Canada ) after winning 102 / 308 seats ( up from 37 ) in the 2011 Canadian federal election.

* October 20 – The Royal Regiment of Artillery forms the first regular Canadian army units when they create two batteries of garrison artillery, which later become the Royal Canadian Artillery.

The river traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and forms part of the international boundary between Ontario and New York in the United States.

This rocky and hilly eastern shore forms the western edge of the Canadian Shield in Quebec and as such the main habitat is boreal forest of the Eastern Canadian Shield taiga ecoregion.

On July 19, a new Match Game set was built by CBS, changed from the original bright orange to a new set with blue and white colors, as well as revamping the logo from the curved letters to a straight-line lettering it would use for the rest of the run ( this logo also forms the base of the 2012 English-language Canadian revival version's logo ).

The Canadian River forms the northern border of the county.

The Canadian River, in a deep and narrow canyon, forms the western border with Mora County ; the southwest border runs along the edge of the Bell Ranch land in San Miguel County.

* It forms part of the historical background of the plot of the Canadian television mini-series H2O.

The shield design forms the monarch's royal standard and is also found on the Canadian Red Ensign.

Tactically, the Canadian battalion forms the core of the infantry battle group, which also includes various supporting elements such as armour, artillery, combat engineers and combat service support.

In Canada, an inverse representation of the Saltire, combined with the shield from the Royal Arms of the Kingdom of Scotland, forms the modern flag of the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia ( New Scotland ), the first colonial venture of the Kingdom of Scotland into the Americas.

Canada's Red Ensign bore various forms of the shield from the Canadian coat of arms in its fly during the period of its use.

All units of the Canadian Forces also have an order of precedence that determines seniority ; it often decides such matters as which unit forms up to the right ( senior side ) of other units on a ceremonial parade, or the order in which marches or calls are played at a Mess Dinner.

There are two different forms of entrapment in Canadian law.

Now both English and French Canadian musicians had outlets to promote all forms of music through video in Canada.

The Cabinet of Canada () is a body of ministers of the Crown that, along with the Canadian monarch, and within the tenets of the Westminster system, forms the government of Canada.

The holiday was initially not dominant in the national calendar ; up to the early 20th century, Canadians thought themselves to be primarily British, being thus less interested in celebrating distinctly Canadian forms of patriotism.

" The title is also included in the Oath of Allegiance, which forms a part of the Oath of Citizenship, and can be found as ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA CANADA Latin for Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen of Canada on the obverse of various medals in the Canadian honours system.

Starting in 2011 the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, Drag racing and other forms of Motorsport began running on the Airport runways and surrounding areas know as the Circuit ICAR.