The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982.

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence about the Constitution. The guide writes: The Constitution of Canada was amended in 1982 to entrench the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The status the test wants is therefore true — the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was entrenched (enacted as part of the Constitution) in 1982.

Three precise commitments. Discover Canada commits the Charter's enactment to THREE specific facts: (1) the year is 1982; (2) the legal mechanism was a constitutional amendment; (3) the action was to entrench the Charter — meaning the Charter became part of the country's supreme law, not just an ordinary statute. So the 1982 enactment is not a simple Act of Parliament but a constitutional commitment that cannot be overridden by ordinary legislation.

The Charter sits within Canada's broader rights framework. Discover Canada commits the Charter to a wider tradition: "Together, these secure for Canadians an 800-year-old tradition of ordered liberty, which dates back to the signing of Magna Carta in 1215 in England (also known as the Great Charter of Freedoms)." So the 1982 Charter is the modern Canadian iteration of an 800-year-old liberty tradition. The guide also names other named rights: freedom of conscience and religion; freedom of association; habeas corpus; freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of speech and of the press; freedom of peaceful assembly; mobility rights; Aboriginal Peoples' Rights; Official Language Rights and Minority Language Educational Rights; and Multiculturalism.

The Charter's beginning words include the recognition of God and rule of law. Discover Canada commits the Charter's opening to a specific phrase: "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law." So the Charter begins with a statement about Canada's foundational principles. The 1982 entrenchment was personally proclaimed by Queen Elizabeth II proclaiming the amended Constitution, Ottawa, 1982. So Canada's Sovereign personally proclaimed the new Charter into force in Ottawa in 1982. The Charter's place in the constitutional structure means it sets limits on what governments — federal or provincial — can do, while protecting Canadians' fundamental rights and freedoms. Canadian habeas corpus comes from English common law, and the broader Constitution combines English common law, the civil code of France, and the unwritten constitution inherited from Great Britain. So when the test asks whether the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982, the source-precise answer is true.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the year the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted. Discover Canada commits to one year: 1982. So the statement that the Charter was enacted in 1982 is true.

The wrong answer ("False") reverses the source — the Charter was indeed entrenched in the Constitution in 1982. The named year, the named action (constitutional amendment), and the named result (entrenchment) all match the test statement. Only the true answer matches the source.