Preliminary Documents And Proceedings Of The 60th Inter Parliamentary Conference 2 Vols

Author : Christopher Maclennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773525327
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Toward the Charter written by Christopher Maclennan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II, a growing concern that Canadians' civil liberties were not adequately protected, coupled with the international revival of the concept of universal human rights, led to a long public campaign to adopt a national bill of rights. While these initial efforts had been only partially successful by the 1960s, they laid the foundation for the radical change in Canadian human rights achieved by Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1980s. In this publication, Christopher MacLennan explores the origins of this dramatic revolution in Canadian human rights, from its beginnings in the Great Depression to the critical developments of the 1960s. Drawing heavily on the experiences of a diverse range of human rights advocates, the author provides a detailed account of the various efforts to resist the abuse of civil liberties at the hands of the federal government and provincial legislatures and the resulting campaign for a national bill of rights.