You have child rights
Transcript - You Have Child Rights
80's video game jingle...
Caption: As a child in Canada, you have child rights.
Dark Clouds in the background and Lightning strikes the title: 'Child Rights.'
Faded background of a living room with the back of a boy wearing a baseball cap sitting on the couch watching TV.
Caption: When everything is well, you have rights at home.
Video game graphics appear on screen. A child taps a floating 'Bonus' icon and a video screen appears with a young girl.
Young person speaking: "I think that the most important child right is that every child should live with the right to access health care."
Video graphic and screen with the young person disappears. A child taps a floating 'Bonus' icon and a video screen appears with a young person.
The child taps a star token. 100 tokens are redeemed for each video watched. The child sitting on the couch receives a call on their smartphone.
Caption: You have rights when you talk to others.
The child taps the 'Bonus' icon and a video appears with a young boy speaking.
Young person in the video screen: "As a fundamental human, you have to have the ability to express your opinion and the freedom to express your opinion."
The child redeems more tokens.
The child is now sitting on a park bench at the park.
Caption: You have rights when you are at the park.
The child taps the 'Bonus' icon and another video appears with a young girl on the screen.
Young person: "My favorite right is the right to play."
More tokens are redeemed.
The child walks home and enters the front door.
An adult voice screams: "Dinner's ready…"
Young person: "okay"
Caption: You even have rights with the people who care for you.
The child taps the 'Bonus' icon and another video appears with a boy speaking from his room.
"The child right that is most important to me is the right to live with a family which cares for you."
More tokens are redeemed.
Front door closes to black screen.
Caption: Child rights happen everywhere you are.
Caption: Learn more about your rights at… Canada dot CA forward slash national child day. Depictions of child rights are not exact. They are intended to portray how children and youth might recognize their rights in real life. The views expressed in this video do not necessarily represent the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada or Health Canada.
Government of Canada jingle
Logo: Government of Canada.
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