Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities
(Art. 31)
31. (1) Persons belonging to a cultural, religious or linguistic community may not be denied the right, with other members of that community -
- to enjoy their culture, practice their religion and use their language; and
- to form, join and maintain cultural, religious and linguistic associations and other organs of civil society.
(2) The rights in subsection (1) may not be exercised in a manner inconsistent with any provision of the Bill of Rights.
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Canada
Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
- Mackiem: Distributing Sovereignty
- R v. Sparrow
- R v. Van der Peet
- R v. N.T.C. Smokehouse
- Reference re Public Schools Act (Man.)
- R v. Pamajewon
- R v. Sioui
- Mahe v. Alberta
- Reference re Education Act (Que.)
- Reference re Manitoba Language Rights
- Sinclair v. Quebec (Attorney General)
- Greater Montreal Protestant School Board v. Quebec (Attorney General)
- The Right to culture in international and comparative law
- Kausea v. Minister of Home Affairs & Others
- Inquiry into social conditions, experiences and perceptions
- Ex Parte Attorney General, Namibia: In Re Corporal Punishment by Organs of State
- Worcester v. Georgia
- Torgeson, Indians Against Immigrants
- Felix S. Cohen, Handbook of Federal Indian Law
- Lone Wolf v. Ethan A. Hitchcock
- United States v. Mazuire
- Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
- US v. Wheeler
- Montana v. United States
- California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
- Seminole Tribe v. Florida