Protecting Rights and Freedoms : : Essays on the Charter's Place in Canada's Political, Legal, and Intellectual life / / ed. by Philip Bryden, Stephen Davis, John Russell.
In his introduction to this collection of essays by constitutional experts, Philip Bryden says that Canadians can be proud of their commitment to the protection of rights and liberties in the Charter. Canada, he believes, is a better place to live then it would be otherwise. Nevertheless, as the ess...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1. Protecting Rights and Freedoms: An Overview
- I. THE CHARTER AND CANADIAN POLITICAL LIFE
- 2. Parliament's Role in Protecting the Rights and Freedoms of Canadians
- 3. The Political Purposes of the Charter: Have They Been Fulfilled? An Agnostic's Report Card
- 4. The Charter and Quebec
- 5. Rights Talk: The Effect of the Charter on Canadian Political Discourse
- 6. Have the Equality Rights Made Any Difference?
- II. THE CHARTER IN THE COURTS
- 7. The Supreme Court Judges' Views of the Role of the Courts in the Application of the Charter
- 8. The Charter Then and Now
- 9. The Supreme Court's Rethinking of the Charter's Fundamental Questions (Or Why the Charter Keeps Getting More Interesting)
- III. THE CHARTER AND OUR INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS
- 10. Is Democracy a Constitutional Right? New Turns in an Old Debate
- 11. Après Nous la Liberté?
- 12. Multirow Federalism and the Charter
- 13. Nationalistic Minorities and Liberal Traditions