Is It Wrong to Not Have All of Your Rights?

In  democracy, rights are one of the most important things. However, to maintain those rights, there needs to be some limitations of rights. But is that the purpose of democracy? To limit rights to maintain the democracy? Or is it to maintain your rights at all costs? Every government needs to decide what action they take to determine this point. In Canada, one of the proposed laws to counteract terrorism is Bill C-51.

This week, we will be looking at several different types of legislation and how they attempt to keep people safe and if limiting the rights is worth risking never getting them back.

What are we doing this week?

Monday: 

• Finish talking about collective rights as there was less than half the class to talk about them on Friday.
• Vocabulary: Individual and Collective rights 
• Safety and security vs. Rights and Freedoms

Tuesday: 

• Safety and security case studies in the Computer Lab. You can meet in the computer lab. Topics will be selected in class. EACH person will be researching two different case studies. Research does NOT include copying and pasting parts from articles on the website. If you don't finish it in class, then the assignment will be for homework.

Wednesday: 

• Balancing rights and freedoms
• Vietnam War
• Residential Schools
• War Measures Act in Canada
• Patriot Act in the US
• Bill C-51
• What's more important - Safety and security or rights and freedoms?
• Right action vs. being Illiberal
• Vocab: Illiberalism 

Thursday: 

• Rants by Britney and JP 
• What can be considered illiberal
• Assignment: Classifying events as illiberal or justifiable (Due Friday)
• Start talking about dissent

Friday: 

• Dissent is the highest form of patriotism - why?
• How can you dissent
• Examples of dissent