Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 10 of 12
Rights & Freedoms
The Charter, rights and responsibilities
What your child practises
The main parts of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, applying them to real situations, and the responsibilities that come with rights.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: B3.1 · citizens' rights and responsibilities, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
What do the Charter's equality rights mean?
⚖️- everyone must look and think the same
- only citizens are protected
- everyone is equal under the law, without discrimination
- everyone gets the same amount of money
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everyone is equal under the law, without discrimination
Hint: Section 15 protects every person from unfair treatment by laws because of things like race, religion, sex, age or disability.
Question 2
The Charter mainly protects you from unfair actions by…
- private businesses
- other countries
- governments and their laws
- your friends
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governments and their laws
Hint: The Charter applies to governments. Human rights laws in each province and territory protect people from discrimination by businesses and landlords.
Question 3
Freedom of expression means you can…
🗣️- share your ideas and opinions
- never hear opinions you dislike
- say anything at all, with no limits
- make others agree with you
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share your ideas and opinions
Hint: You can speak, write and create to share your views, but not in ways that spread hate or harm others.
Question 4
In 1946, Viola Desmond refused to leave the whites-only section of a movie theatre in Nova Scotia. Why is she honoured today?
💵- she started a movie company
- she was Canada's first Prime Minister
- she stood up against racial discrimination
- she wrote the Charter
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she stood up against racial discrimination
Hint: Her stand against racism helped inspire Canada's civil rights movement. In 2018, her portrait was put on the $10 bill.
Question 5
Is it a right or a responsibility? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 📜 right · 🤝 responsibility
- 🤝respecting the rights of others
- 🏛️a fair trial
- 👥serving on a jury when called
- ⚖️equality under the law
- 🚚living and working in any province
- 🚦obeying the law
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📜 right: a fair trial, equality under the law, living and working in any province · 🤝 responsibility: respecting the rights of others, serving on a jury when called, obeying the law
Hint: A right is something you are entitled to. A responsibility is something you should do to respect others and help Canada work.
Question 6
What are Canada's two official languages?
- French and German
- English and French
- English and Italian
- English and Spanish
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English and French
Hint: The federal government serves people in both English and French.