The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190664835
Total Pages : 1169 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution by : Peter Oliver

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution written by Peter Oliver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution provides an ideal first stop for Canadians and non-Canadians seeking a clear, concise, and authoritative account of Canadian constitutional law. The Handbook is divided into six parts: Constitutional History, Institutions and Constitutional Change, Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Constitution, Federalism, Rights and Freedoms, and Constitutional Theory. Readers of this Handbook will discover some of the distinctive features of the Canadian constitution: for example, the importance of Indigenous peoples and legal systems, the long-standing presence of a French-speaking population, French civil law and Quebec, the British constitutional heritage, the choice of federalism, as well as the newer features, most notably the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section Thirty-Five regarding Aboriginal rights and treaties, and the procedures for constitutional amendment. The Handbook provides a remarkable resource for comparativists at a time when the Canadian constitution is a frequent topic of constitutional commentary. The Handbook offers a vital account of constitutional challenges and opportunities at the time of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Canada’s Rights Revolution

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858435
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis Canada’s Rights Revolution by : Dominique Clément

Download or read book Canada’s Rights Revolution written by Dominique Clément and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clément explores the history of four organizations that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries. This book offers a unique perspective on infamous human rights controversies and argues that the idea of human rights has historically been highly statist while grassroots activism has been at the heart of the most profound human rights advances.

Towards a Constitutional Charter for Canada

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442632933
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards a Constitutional Charter for Canada by : Albert S. Abel

Download or read book Towards a Constitutional Charter for Canada written by Albert S. Abel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1980-12-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely book, edited from a manuscript left unfinished at his death, one of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars presents his prescription for constitutional change. The book diagnoses the failure of Canada’s present constitution, both in dealing with the country’s distinctive characteristics—regional identity and regional disparity—and in providing for effective national economic management. Drawing upon comparisons with other federal constitutions and with the European Economic Community, it proposes a new constitutional charter which would shift important responsibilities to the provinces while strengthening the economic powers of the central government. Specific recommendations are set out for a provincial residuary power, restructured taxing and spending powers, and a Canadian Equalization Council—the last a unique redistributive mechanism designed to ensure that residents of every province have access to adequate government services. Throughout, the plan pays close attention to the need to formulate constitutional provisions in a way which protects them against distortion by subsequent interpretation. At a time when the need for solutions to Canada’s constitutional problems has never been more pressing, Albert Abel’s is a particularly valuable individual contribution to the Canadian constitutional debate.

Constitutional Predicament

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773512023
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Book Synopsis Constitutional Predicament by : Curtis Cook

Download or read book Constitutional Predicament written by Curtis Cook and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by prominent Canadian political scientists and philosophers examines why the Charlottetown Accord failed to resolve Canada's constitutional problems and explains the design and fate of the accord as reflected in the theories and political forces that framed it.

Canada's Odyssey

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487502044
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Book Synopsis Canada's Odyssey by : Peter H. Russell

Download or read book Canada's Odyssey written by Peter H. Russell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Canada's Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre-Confederation period to the present day.

Canadiana

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Total Pages : 720 pages
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Canada: the State of the Federation 1993

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Publisher : IIGR, Queen's University
ISBN 13 : 0889115656
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Book Synopsis Canada: the State of the Federation 1993 by : Douglas M. Brown

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Constitutional Odyssey

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802037771
Total Pages : 377 pages
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Book Synopsis Constitutional Odyssey by : Peter H. Russell

Download or read book Constitutional Odyssey written by Peter H. Russell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and second editions of Constitutional Odyssey, published in 1992 and 1993 respectively, received wide-ranging praise for their ability to inform the public debate. This third edition continues in that tradition.

Protecting Canadian Democracy

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773526198
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Book Synopsis Protecting Canadian Democracy by : Canadian Centre for Management Development

Download or read book Protecting Canadian Democracy written by Canadian Centre for Management Development and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first in-depth analysis of Canada's Senate in 40 years.

Human Rights in Canada

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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771121645
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Rights in Canada by : Dominique Clément

Download or read book Human Rights in Canada written by Dominique Clément and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history—one that transformed political culture, social movements, law, and foreign policy. Human Rights in Canada is one of the first sociological studies of human rights in Canada. It explains that human rights are a distinct social practice, and it documents those social conditions that made human rights significant at a particular historical moment. A central theme in this book is that human rights derive from society rather than abstract legal principles. Therefore, we can identify the boundaries and limits of Canada’s rights culture at different moments in our history. Until the 1970s, Canadians framed their grievances with reference to Christianity or British justice rather than human rights. A historical sociological approach to human rights reveals how rights are historically contingent, and how new rights claims are built upon past claims. This book explores governments’ tendency to suppress rights in periods of perceived emergency; how Canada’s rights culture was shaped by state formation; how social movements have advanced new rights claims; the changing discourse of rights in debates surrounding the constitution; how the international human rights movement shaped domestic politics and foreign policy; and much more. In addition to drawing on secondary literature in law, history, sociology, and political science, this study looked to published government documents, litigation and case law, archival research, newspapers, opinion polls, and materials produced by non-governmental organizations.

Governing with the Charter

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840080
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis Governing with the Charter by : James B. Kelly

Download or read book Governing with the Charter written by James B. Kelly and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Governing with the Charter, James Kelly clearly demonstrates that our current democratic deficit is not the result of the Supreme Court’s judicial activism. On the contrary, an activist framers’ intent surrounds the Charter, and the Supreme Court has simply, and appropriately, responded to this new constitutional environment. While the Supreme Court is admittedly a political actor, it is not the sole interpreter of the Charter, as the court, the cabinet, and bureaucracy all respond to the document, which has ensured the proper functioning of constitutional supremacy in Canada. Kelly analyzes the parliamentary hearings on the Charter and also draws from interviews with public servants, senators, and members of parliament actively involved in appraising legislation to ensure that it is consistent with the Charter. He concludes that the principal institutional outcome of the Charter has been a marginalization of Parliament and that this is due to the Prime Minister’s decision on how to govern with the Charter.

Canada's Francophone Minority Communities

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773526303
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Book Synopsis Canada's Francophone Minority Communities by : Michael D. Behiels

Download or read book Canada's Francophone Minority Communities written by Michael D. Behiels and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 1950s francophone and Acadian minority communities outside Quebec were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century were being eliminated or transformed. Canada's Francophone Minority Communities shows how French-speaking minorities won the right to full and unfettered school governance with the backing of the Charter, the Supreme Court, and the Canadian government.Convinced that education was one of the essential keys to the renewal and growth of their communities, francophone organizations and leaders lobbied for constitutional entrenchment of official bilingualism and a mandated Charter right to education in their own language, including the right to governance over their own schools and school boards - a significant Canadian innovation. From those efforts a new, vigorous francophone pan-Canadian national community emerged, one capable of ensuring the survival of its constituents communities well into the twenty-first century.

The Daily Plebiscite

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487533721
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis The Daily Plebiscite by : David R. Cameron

Download or read book The Daily Plebiscite written by David R. Cameron and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, Canada was in a state of ongoing political crisis. Within this thirty-year period, David R. Cameron was an active participant and observer of Canada’s crisis of national unity. As a political scientist and former senior public servant, Cameron remains one of the most astute and respected analysts of Canadian federalism. This volume assembles some of Cameron’s best works on federalism, nationalism, and the constitution, including journal articles, book chapters, speeches, newspaper op-eds, and unpublished opinion pieces spanning nearly fifty years of engagement. In addition, The Daily Plebiscite includes a conversation between Cameron and Robert C. Vipond on the "long decade" of the 1980s in Canadian constitutional politics, a brief history of the mega-constitutional era, and concluding reflections on the broader lessons that other divided societies might take from the Canadian experience. Providing rich fare for anyone interested in questions of federalism, nationalism, and constitutionalism, The Daily Plebiscite offers an informed, insider’s perspective on the national unity question and considers the challenges faced by a federal, multinational, and multicultural country like Canada.

Self-Determination in International Law, Quebec and Lessons Learned

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004505822
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Self-Determination in International Law, Quebec and Lessons Learned by : Anne Bayefsky

Download or read book Self-Determination in International Law, Quebec and Lessons Learned written by Anne Bayefsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case of Quebec within Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada's case on the legality of secessionist attempts by Quebec, is one example of the tension associated with the relationship between self-determination and a right of secession. The object of the book is to render available to the international community the expert opinions and legal arguments associated with the Supreme Court of Canada's decision on the Quebec Secession Reference. The questions put to the Court in large part concerned international law, leading the parties to the Reference to seek opinions from international law experts around the world as they prepared their arguments which are presented in this book. Self-determination is an idea rooted in human dignity and its meaning and force parallel the emergence of new understandings of the nature of sovereignty and the role of international law in the protection of human rights. The UN Human Rights Committee has identified self-determination as one of the most awkward principles to define because abuse of this right could jeopardize international peace and security. Self-determination, as formulated by the International Court of Justice, requires a free and genuine expression of the will of the peoples concerned. But serious questions remain about the extent of the relationship between self-determination and a right of secession. Does self-determination legitimate internal self-government, association of some kind with another state, or statehood, and in what contexts?

Misrecognized Materialists

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840455
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Book Synopsis Misrecognized Materialists by : Matt James

Download or read book Misrecognized Materialists written by Matt James and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book with provocative implications for students and scholars of social movements and identity politics, Misrecognized Materialists offers a fresh and important perspective on Canada's constitutional struggles over civic symbolism and identity.

Accommodating Cultural Diversity

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317185919
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis Accommodating Cultural Diversity by : Stephen Tierney

Download or read book Accommodating Cultural Diversity written by Stephen Tierney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores recent developments in the theory and practice of accommodating cultural diversity within democratic constitutional orders. The aim of the book is to provide a broad vision of the constitutional management of cultural diversity as seen through the prisms of different disciplines and experiences, both theoretical and practical. The contributions, which come from Canada and Europe, comprise a review of the evolving theory of cultural diversity, followed by two main case studies: a substantive study of the accommodation of indigenous peoples within different constitutional orders and, secondly, the importance of constitutional interpretation to the development of cultural diversity in complex pluralist democracies such as Australia, Canada and the UK.

Framing Canadian Federalism

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691395
Total Pages : 321 pages
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Download or read book Framing Canadian Federalism written by Dimitry Anastakis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-06-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of Canada, changing policies towards human rights, First Nations, as well as the legendary battles between Mitchell Hepburn and W.L. Mackenzie King, this collection illustrates the central role that federalism continues to play in the Canadian polity. Editors Dimitry Anastakis and P.E. Bryden and the volume's contributors, demonstrate the pervasive effects that federalism has on Canadian politics, economics, culture, and history, and provide a detailed framework in which to understand contemporary federalism. Written in honour of John T. Saywell's half-century of accomplished and influential scholarly work and teaching, Framing Canadian Federalism is a timely and fitting tribute to one of the discipline's foremost thinkers.