Right To Work

1. As I look into our fundamental rights and freedoms let us keep in mind that right is
something that can be exercised and never creates an obligation upon the one who has
the ability to exercise it. Many of us do not make this association with a right but it is
important to understand the nature of what a right is.

2. As you have seen a citizen has the right to vote, now come election day will Canada send
police officers to our home and say it is voting day and you must go and use your right to
vote, no of course not. Why, because a right never produces and obligation but an option
to use it

can choose to
use it
produces a
choice
can choose
Right or not to use it
freedom
does not can not be
produce an forced to use
obligation the right

3. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 6

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right to work, which
includes the right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his living by work which
he freely chooses or accepts, and will take appropriate steps to safeguard this right.
4. The subject or player here is an Everyone, the article of law did not use the designation of
citizen or person but specifically used the designation of Everyone. This term, everyone is
bringing forth strictly the designation of a Human being.

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 5. This article of law is bringing forth a right that a human being has. A Human being has the
right to work.

6. Does this produce an obligation, is this law stating that a Human being must work. No it is
not, a right never produces an obligation but a choice. Here we are seeing that as men and
women we have the right to work.

7. Canada as a state party is under obligation as a signatory to the covenant to recognize the
right to work. There is a right to work that an individual can chose to exercise. As with
any right, it can be used or not used.
The right to work includes (A canon of construction holding that to express or include
one thing implies the exclusion of the other, or of the alternative what is about to be
mentioned is the only reason for the work).The right to work includes the right of
everyone (Human Being) to the opportunity (chance) to gain his or her living by work.
8. The reason for working is declared in law as strictly to gain a living by this work. If you
chose to exercise the right to work then the reason for working is to produce, earn or
gain a living. Gain the resources you need to live and survive. Living for himself and his
family, including food, clothing and housing etc.1

9. The money and resources that you receive for working is to be used solely for the purpose
of supplying your own living.

10. This right to gain your living through work is something that you must freely choose or
accept. This is what the law is stating in international law.

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 The work is to
earn and gain a
Freely choose or living
accept to work the reason for
Recognize the working is
right to work specific
Canada must
it remains a
protect and
choice
ensure this right

This is not what transpired with my life. I was never informed that work was a right that I
could use. I was taught that work is an obligation and that I must work to survive, to have
a living.

11. I never freely choose to earn and gain a living but were forced into gaining a living
through being made ignorant of our fundamental rights and freedoms.

12. I am seeing that we have the right to work and since this is a right it does not produce an
obligation. I can choose to use this right and if I do then the purpose is strictly to produce
a living.
13. If I choose not to exercise this right then what transpires, what is the consequence.

14. Looking into the international covenants I find another right that everyone, the human
being has.

15. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 11

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate
standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and
housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will
take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the
essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent.

16. I as an individual have the right to an adequate standard of living. The standard of
living does not need to be earned or gained, we do not have to exercise the right to work
17. to have an adequate standard of living but it is our natural right and freedom.

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18. I can choose to pursue after a living or I can enjoy a living. In both options the state party
Canada must take appropriate steps to safe- guard whatever right I decide to use.

Right to Work to individual freely

earn and gain a chooses to create
living own living
To have a Living is
an obligation Food clothing
right to an housing continued
adequate living improvement of
living

19. The state party Canada is designating you as a citizen and is automatically declaring that
as a citizen you must work to earn and gain a living. The right to choose if I will enjoy a
living or if I will freely accept to earn and gain a living belongs solely to the Human
being (everyone).

20. Canada is declaring that you are a subject of the Queen and a citizen of the territory as
such they have declared that I have chosen to pursue a living.

21. Since Canada is declaring that I am freely choosing to work they have the obligation to
take the appropriate steps to safeguard this right on my behalf.

22. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 6

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right to work, which includes the
right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his living by work which he freely chooses or
accepts, and will take appropriate steps to safeguard this right

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 6.2

The steps to be taken by a State Party to the present Covenant to achieve the full
realization of this right shall include technical and vocational guidance and training

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 programmes, policies and techniques to achieve steady economic, social and cultural
development….

23. In order to help me as an individual fulfill the right to work that you freely accepted to
use, Canada had to take steps to secure the education of a person who is operating the
right to work. A person needs technical or vocational training in order to find a position in
work. Canada was and is under obligation to provide this guidance and training to the
individual.

steps to be taken
steps to safeguard
the right
technical and
Canada recognize vocational training
the right to work

person freely
and choses to work
accepts

24. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 13.1

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to education.

They agree that education shall be directed to the full development of the human
personality and the sense of its dignity, and shall strengthen the respect for human
rights and fundamental freedoms. They further agree that education shall enable all
persons to participate effectively in a free society,

25. Education shall enable all persons to participate effectively in a free society.

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 26. Technical and vocational training shall give the person the ability that it needs to work
(to participate) in a free in society. The person freely chose or accepted to work, We all
chose and accepted to work, accepted to be part of the society that is why laws says it is a
FREE society.

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article

13.2. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize that, with a view to achieving
the full realization of this right:
(a) Primary education shall be compulsory and available free to all;
(b) Secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational
secondary education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every
appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education;
(c) Higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by
every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free
education;
27. As a Human being I should have been taught my fundamental rights and freedoms. This
was the primary reason for education to strengthen the understanding concerning human
rights and fundamental freedoms. In learning these rights and freedoms I would have been
exposed to the operation of law that I have just learnt concerning the right to work.
Further to this education was to be directed at fulfilling the right to work as it pertains to gaining
and earning a living.

28. This education that would have helped the person exercise its right to work was to be free.

29. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 6.2 The
steps to be taken by a State Party to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization
of this right shall include technical and vocational guidance and training programmes,
policies and techniques to achieve steady economic, social and cultural development and
full and productive employment under conditions safeguarding fundamental political and
economic freedoms to the individual.

30. Canada had the obligation to teach me both designations under law and then the choice
was to be mine as to what rights I would chose to exercise.

31. Canada did not allow me to decide and never taught me that I could have a living without
having to earn, gain or earn this living that I did not have to work for a living.

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32. The right to decide if I will freely chose and accept to work was a right that was
recognized for a human being only. That is why the subject or player being brought forth
in the article of law is EVERYONE. The human being had the right to decide if he or she
would enjoy a living and pursue happiness or decide to pursue and earn a living.

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 6

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right to work, which includes
the right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his living by work which he freely
chooses or accepts
33. When we are talking about the right to work the reason for working was to produce a
living. What we are talking about is the security of the person. The security of the
individual concerning the ability to have shelter from the elements, food to eat and so
forth created through their work.

34. This is dealing with the security of the individual.

35. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 11

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate
standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and
housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions

36. If the Human being (EVERYONE) decided not to use the right to work he or she still had
the right to an adequate standard of living. This deals with the security of the person, the
security of the Human being.

37. This obligation is directly against Her Majesty. It is Her Majesty which is the executive
power here in Canada, it is she who is the Sovereign of this land and who agreed to be a
signatory to the international covenants and the fundamental rights and freedoms
contained in it.

38. Her Majesty owes me the individual the debt obligation concerning an adequate living.
This right to an adequate living exists only for a human being and not for an artificial
entity. In order to fulfill the obligation they must make the provision exercisable by the
human being.

39. Preamble of the Covenants- The ideal of free human beings enjoying freedom from fear
and want can only be achieved if conditions are created whereby everyone may enjoy
his economic, social and cultural rights, as well as his civil and political rights,

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 40. ICESCR Article 3

The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to ensure the equal right of men and women
to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights set forth in the present
Covenant.

41. I am seeing that there had to be conditions already created for a Free Human being to
enjoy his or her rights and freedoms. There had to be conditions created a system of law
created that would fulfill the right to an adequate living. To provide the funds for the
adequate living.

42. The covenants talk about free human beings enjoying their rights through a already
created system of law, it further states that the state parties had to ensure the enjoyment of
these rights to men and women (human beings).

43. ICESCR Article 1

All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their
political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development (rights,
privileges and benefits).

economic social
have the ability to
enjoy their
cultural rights
Human being , man
and woman
when operating as a must pursue after
people subject of and gain these
Her majesty rights

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