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  2. Amendments to the Constitution of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Constitution Amendment, 1997 (Newfoundland Act) term 17 of schedule to Newfoundland Act: Allowed the Province of Newfoundland to create a secular school system to replace the church-based education system. s. 43: House of Commons and Newfoundland House of Assembly; Senate approval was bypassed with s. 47 Constitution Amendment, 1997 (Quebec)

  3. Section 13 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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    This section serves a similar purpose as the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, but does not provide witnesses the same opportunity to excuse themselves from testifying. In R. v. Nedelcu , 2012 SCC 59, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada found that the prosecution in a criminal trial could use prior inconsistent testimony ...

  4. List of Canadian constitutional documents - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of Canada is a large number of documents that have been entrenched in the constitution by various means. Regardless of how documents became entrenched, together those documents form the supreme law of Canada; no non-constitutional law may conflict with them, and none of them may be changed without following the amending formula given in Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982.

  5. Canadian Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] These legal and constitutional limitations were a significant reason that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was established as an unambiguously-constitutional-level Bill of Rights for all Canadians, governing the application of both federal and provincial law in Canada, with the patriation of the Constitution of Canada in 1982

  6. List of acts of the Parliament of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Canada Labour Code, 1967; Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69; Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, 1970; Consumer Packaging and Labeling Act, 1970; Weights and Measures Act, 1970; Divorce Act, 1968 - replaced by Divorce Act, 1985; Canada Wildlife Act, 1973; National Symbol of Canada Act, 1975; Anti-Inflation Act 1975; Immigration Act, 1976

  7. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Wikipedia

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    Generally, people have the right to use either the English or French language in communications with Canada's federal government and certain provincial governments. Specifically, the language laws in the Charter include: Section 16 English and French are the official languages of Canada and New Brunswick. Section 16.1

  8. Human rights in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Printed copies of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is part of the Constitution of Canada. [19] The Charter guarantees political, mobility, and equality rights and fundamental freedoms such as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion for private individuals and some organisations. [20]

  9. Constitution of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The other amendment formulae are for particular cases as provided by the act. An amendment related to the Office of the King, the use of either official language (subject to section 43), the amending formula itself, or the composition of the Supreme Court, must be adopted by unanimous consent of all the provinces in accordance with section 41 ...