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Section 121 remains concerned with keeping Canada economically united, and section 6 is primarily concerned with an individual's freedom of movement. [3] The Supreme Court has compared section 6 to section 2(a) of the 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights, which bars "the arbitrary detention, imprisonment or exile of any person." However, section 6 ...
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.
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (French: Charte canadienne des droits et libertés), often simply referred to as the Charter in Canada, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982.
The Constitution Act, 1982 established French and English as Canada's two official languages. Guarantees for the equal status of the two official languages are provided in sections 16–23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 16 guarantees that French and English “have equality of status and equal rights and privileges ...
Official Justice Laws Website of the Canadian Department of Justice; Constitutional Acts, Consolidated Statutes, and Annual Statutes at the Canadian Legal Information Institute; Canadian Constitutional Documents: A Legal History at the Solon Law Archive
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The Constitution Act, 1867 provides for a constitution "similar in principle" to the largely unwritten constitution of the United Kingdom, recognizes Canada as a constitutional monarchy and federal state, and outlines the legal foundations of Canadian federalism. [5] The Constitution of Canada includes written and unwritten components. [4]
The right to life, liberty and security of the person, and in another section, rights to fundamental justice (the Charter combines those rights in Section 7) The right to the enjoyment of property, which is not enshrined in the Charter; The right to counsel (now in Section 10 of the Charter). Section 2 of the Bill of Rights reads as follows: 2.