Our Home and Native Land: The Canadian Human Rights Bill

This is what the Canadian Charter of Freedom and Rights guarantees all citizens in Canada:

• the right to life;
  
• the protection against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
  
• the protection against slavery;
  
• the protection against imprisonment for debt;
  
• the protection against acts made retroactively into crimes;
  
• the right of every individual to be recognized as a person under law;
  
• the freedoms of thought, conscience and religion.
  

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Reference:
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms