Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

6 free practice questions from the chapter Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship of Discover Canada, each with the answer and its source. The app and the workbook have all 33.

In what year was the Constitution of Canada amended to entrench the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

  1. 1960
  2. 1982
  3. 1980
  4. 1867
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B. 1982
The Charter has been part of the Constitution since 1982. It sums up the fundamental freedoms and adds rights such as mobility and official language rights.
Source, Discover Canada, chapter Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

In which elections do Canadians have a responsibility to vote?

  1. local elections only
  2. federal elections only
  3. federal and provincial or territorial elections only
  4. federal, provincial or territorial and local elections
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D. federal, provincial or territorial and local elections
The right to vote carries a responsibility to use it at every level, from Ottawa to the provincial or territorial capital to the local council.
Source, Discover Canada, chapter Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

True or false? Canada inherited its unwritten constitution from France.?

  1. True
  2. False
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B. False
The unwritten constitution was inherited from Great Britain. France gave Canadian law another of its sources, the civil code.
Source, Discover Canada, chapter Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

True or false? Canadian law secures for Canadians an 800-year-old tradition of ordered liberty.?

  1. True
  2. False
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A. True
That tradition of ordered liberty goes back 800 years, to the signing of Magna Carta in England in 1215.
Source, Discover Canada, chapter Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

Which country's civil code is one of the sources of Canadian law?

  1. Spain
  2. England
  3. the United States
  4. France
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D. France
Canadian law draws on the civil code of France, together with English common law, the unwritten constitution inherited from Great Britain and the laws passed by Parliament and the provincial legislatures.
Source, Discover Canada, chapter Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

What does the Charter say about the treaty rights of Aboriginal peoples?

  1. Charter rights will not adversely affect them
  2. they apply only on reserve lands
  3. they are replaced by Charter rights
  4. they must be renegotiated with each province
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A. Charter rights will not adversely affect them
Charter rights cannot be used to weaken any treaty or other rights or freedoms that Aboriginal peoples already hold.
Source, Discover Canada, chapter Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

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