9:15 - 11:50 C Block Legal Studies
12:30 - 3:05 B Block Human Geography
C Block Legal Studies - Today we'll finish the "Fire Within" that we began yesterday. After, I'll have you work on the following questions:
1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?
After the break we'll talk about the LGBTQ+ community in Canada and the Civil Marriage Act (which legalized same-sex marriage in Canada on July 20, 2005). In Canada, same-sex sexual activities between consenting adults were considered crimes punishable by imprisonment before 1969. That year, the Canadian government passed a bill decriminalizing private sexual acts between two people over the age of 21 – a breakthrough in treating gay men, lesbians and bisexuals equally under the law. Almost ten years later, in 1977, Quebec became the first jurisdiction in Canada to amend its provincial charter of human rights to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground for discrimination. In 1996, the Canadian Human Rights Act was amended to specifically include sexual orientation as one of the prohibited grounds of discrimination. In Egan v. Canada (1995) the Supreme Court of Canada held that although "sexual orientation" is not listed as a ground for discrimination in section 15(1) of the Charter, it constitutes an equivalent ground on which claims of discrimination may be based.
Finally we'll take a closer look at Human Rights and how they are enforced in Canada. We'll talk about the methods of enforcing rights guaranteed under the Charter (section 52 of the Constitution Act and Section 24 of the Charter). We'll look at the differences between "strike down", "read down" and "read in".
- "Striking down" involves a finding of invalidity of the entire provision or law in question
- In some cases, the inconsistency between a law and the Constitution arises from what the statute wrongly excludes or omits. In such cases, the remedy of “reading in” may be available which means that the validity of the legislation can be achieved through the “insertion of a handful of words, without more”
- “reading down” describes the remedy at a conceptual level. Reading down involves shrinking the reach of a statute to remove its unconstitutional applications or effects without regard to the explicit statutory language that would be required to achieve that result
To finish, I'll have you work complete
Questions 1-4 on page 94:
1. Explain the difference between civil rights and human rights.
2. How do prejudice and stereotyping lead to discrimination?
3. Explain the difference between a complainant and a respondent.
4. What is the difference between intentional and unintentional discrimination?
Questions 4 & 5 from page 97:
4. Explain the concept of a poisoned work environment. Provide an example.
5. Explain the difference between accommodation and undue hardship.
AND Question 5 from page 104:
5. What types of remedies are available under human rights law?
For more on the BC Human Rights Code look at the Attorney General's Human Rights Protection site. or the BC Human Rights Commissioner or the BC Human Rights Tribunal. For more on the Canadian Human Rights Act see the Canadian Department of Justice site. For more on Human Rights in Canada see the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
1. Explain the difference between civil rights and human rights.
2. How do prejudice and stereotyping lead to discrimination?
3. Explain the difference between a complainant and a respondent.
4. What is the difference between intentional and unintentional discrimination?
Questions 4 & 5 from page 97:
4. Explain the concept of a poisoned work environment. Provide an example.
5. Explain the difference between accommodation and undue hardship.
AND Question 5 from page 104:
5. What types of remedies are available under human rights law?
For more on the BC Human Rights Code look at the Attorney General's Human Rights Protection site. or the BC Human Rights Commissioner or the BC Human Rights Tribunal. For more on the Canadian Human Rights Act see the Canadian Department of Justice site. For more on Human Rights in Canada see the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
B Block Human Geography - Today if you need it, we'll head to the Learning commons/library for the first part of the afternoon to finish up the work on the 2020 World Population Data (using both the PRB Interactive Map and the pdf data sheet) to see current trends and numbers in world population. Demography is the scientific study of human populations. It involves analysis of three observable phenomena: changes in population size, the composition of the population and the distribution of populations in space. Demography is useful for governments and private businesses as a means of analyzing and predicting social, cultural, and economic trends related to population. This area of study is the jumping off point for us in the course. Our next topic is development and migration, which is directly related to the demographics you've looked at this week.
Back in the class we'll look at the Key Issue "Why Does Development Vary among Countries"? To do this we'll look at the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a composite index measuring average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development:
Earth’s nearly 200 countries can be classified according to their level of development, which is the process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology. This is not necessarily about what makes people happy (The World Happiness Report) The development process is continuous, involving never-ending actions to constantly improve the health and prosperity of the people. Every place lies at some point along a continuum of development.
- a long and healthy life,
- knowledge and
- a decent standard of living
Earth’s nearly 200 countries can be classified according to their level of development, which is the process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology. This is not necessarily about what makes people happy (The World Happiness Report) The development process is continuous, involving never-ending actions to constantly improve the health and prosperity of the people. Every place lies at some point along a continuum of development.
What pattern do you recognize in the map of LDC's below?
Given what you just learned about demography...why do you think this pattern exists?
You'll have two really big thinking questions to work on for me connected to this topic:
- If you were to create an index of development, what indicators would you use, and why (look at the UN HDI Indicators for Canada in the week 7 booklet)? How would you weigh each indicator? Could your index be used around the world, or would it be mostly relevant to our society?
- The HDI is used to measure development at a whole-country level. Is it adequate to measure development within a country? Why or why not? (Another way of thinking about this: Are there minority groups that may be “glossed over” by the HDI?
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