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Red River Resistance
Established Manitoba as a bilingual province. -
Indian Act
Aboriginals rights and freedoms were taken away: right to vote and to do traditional ceremonies. -
Residential Schools
Forced Aboriginal children to change their traditional life to a life of an English men. -
Treaty 8
Agreement to peace and land between the First Nations and the Queen of England. -
Indian Association
Maintained treaty rights for the Aboriginal peoples. -
Treaties with Great Britian
The First Nations made treaties with Great Britian. -
Statement of the Government of Canada Indian Policy
Canada cannot be a just society and keep discriminatory legislation on it's statue book. The barriers created by special legislation such as treaties can generally be struck down. The treaties need to be reviewed to see how they can be equitably ended. -
Bill 101 Charte de la langue francaise
This Quebec law sets down rules for protecting and promoting the use of the French language in Quebec. -
The Constitution
An agreement to the right to govern ourselves. -
Francophone schools
Francophone parents begin to lobby for their minority language education rights under section 23 of the Charter. -
Francophone School Boards
Francophone parents in Alberta launch a charter challenge to establish their right to Francophone school boards. -
Supreme Court Decision
Francophone parents do not have the right to educate their children in Anglophone schools in Quebec since this violates the intent of section 23 to protect Francophone identity as a minority culture in Canada.
