Using this controversial topic, we are going to break down the impact this rule has had on Canadian's individual rights.

Background Information

• Adopted in June 2007

• Purpose is to reduce the risk to others on an airplane or in airports

• Used to ban certain people from travelling by air for security reasons

  • Those who look 12 or older

  • people deemed threats

    • those who are members of a terrorist group

    • those convicted of more serious crimes and crimes against aviation security

How the process works

•  As people check-in, their name is compared to that on the "No-fly List".  

• The staff make sure the name, gender and birthdate are a match to the one on the list

• The staff notifies Transport Canada officer who then varifies the information

• Both the airline and the officer then make a decision whether to allow the person on board

Equally Valid Issue to the Program

• Takes away civil liberties

• Infrindges on privacy

• May encourage racial profiling

• The American No-fly list controversy

• The information is pulled from both federal and international information

Update

• Lawyer Faisal Kutty has taken action by submitting "Too Guilty to Fly, Too Innocent to Charge?"

• In March 2016, a delegate from the European Parliament was denied flight from Paris to Montreal.  His name was on the US No-Fly List, but his plane was not even crossing into American airspace.

• Many children and their families have had their travelling plans altered because the child was on the child's list

• In February, the government announced that $81.4 million would be used to redress the system and create a better model. 

Resources

Passenger Protect

Up to 100,000 Canadians could be affected by no-fly list, research suggests

No-fly list headache may soon be over for this Canadian boy and others in the same boat

There are many issues that have been debated at the provincial and the supreme court on individuals rights and freedoms.  The purpose of the Canadian Human Rights Commission is to provide Canadians:

• Information on our individual rights

• An organization to help navigate "the system" should you find yourself in a discriminatory situation

• List of current key issues that are hot topics for today. 

Once in a while, the government has to decide if a decision is right for Canadians.  This difficult job can increase discourse amongst us.  What issues might arise from these decisions for indivudal rights and freedoms?  How might these decisions affect citizenship?

Using the Spot and Respond to the Issue on page 12 and 13, answer the questions using situations found from the Canadian Human Rights Commission

1. What is the topic about?

   1. What individuals and groups are most affected by this topic or idea?

   2. What are some points of view and perspectives about the topic or idea?

2. What is the central issue?

   1. What is the most common or important question about the topic?

   2. How does this question affect citizenship, identity and quality of life for you and others?

   3. Is this particular topic or idea one that cannot be easily "solved" with the one clear right or wrong answer?

3. What's your first response to the issue?

   1. What is your initial personal opinion on the issue?

   2. What parts of your identity, such as  your values and beliefs and how you see the world or believe it should be, inform your opinion and help you to develop an individual point of view about the issue?

   3. What in your experience could inform your opinion, and help you to develop an individual point of view and possibly a collective perspective about the issue?

4. How can you develop more a informed response to the issue?

   1. What additional relevant and reliable sources can you find that will help you to learn more about the issue? 

   2. Where can you find these sources? 

   3. How can these additional sources help you to develop further understanding and appreciation of different perspectives and responses to the issue?  

   4. What additional background knowledge and research about the issue do you need to help you understand more about the complexity of the issue and who it affects? 

5. What is your informed position on the issue? 

   1. What do you believe is your most relevant, supported, and informed response to the issue? 

   2. Which reasons, examples and evidence best support your response? 

   3. How can you organize the evidence you have collected to best demonstrate your position about the issue? 

6. What action do you need to take on this issue?

   1. How does the issue affect the quality of life, citizenship and identity of you and other people in Canada? 

   2. In what ways can you communicate the importance of the issue and your response to it to others?

Using two different problems, we are going to analyze the situation and determine what action we can take on the issues.