Gaining Rights for Aboriginals, Minorities and Women

CHC2D8Ms. Gluskin

Good News – Good WordsList some positive words from the Gaining Rights worksheet.

• Liberty• Liberate• Brotherhood• Freedom• Equality• Security/safety• Human rights• Right to vote• Freedom of

religion• Freedom of

conscience• Citizenship• Enhance

• Internment• Seize• Suspend• Torture• Slavery• Persecute• Discriminate• Ghettoes• Death camps• Ghettoes

List some negative words from recent lessons

Positive Changes• More groups of people got the right to …

– Including: • • • •

• More people could … to Canada.–

• Women could more easily…– – –

Immigrants

Improvements for Women

Leftovers

• Problems that still needed to be solved– Anything that is left over, that remains

Important Leftovers

• Continuities:– For Black Canadians• •

– For women• • • •

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/viola-desmond-1st-nova-scotian-honoured-on-new-holiday-1.2540231

Questions

• Did changes to Canada’s immigration laws go far enough?

• Did winning the right to vote bring an end to discrimination?

• Does awareness of discrimination lead to positive change?

• How much did changing values affect Canadian families?

Quebec

• How was Quebec feeling after the Canadian Constitution was created in 1982?– … to be continued tomorrow and the next few

days as our last topic