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Authors: Michael Ignatieff

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resources; self-government

treaty rights in Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
7
,
12
,
65

as pre-existing,
28
,
58
–59

abortion,
7
,
85
,
90
,
137

absolutism, moral,
17
,
137

abundance,
91
–93

abuse,
22
,
23
.
See also
child abuse; redress; women

of immigrants and refugees,
37
,
130
–31

protection from,
28
,
88
,
123

of rights,
37
–38,
49
,
50
–52

Acadians,
120

access rights,
118
adjudication,
9
,
11
,
25
,
31
,
82
,
94
,
110
,
121
,
126

of competing rights claims,
31
,
76
,
80

adoption rights,
86
,
110

affirmative action,
11
,
12
,
74
,
88
.

See also
redress

Afghanistan,
140

Africa,
44

agency,
23
,
39
,
41
,
109
,
111

and human difference,
53

and human rights,
43
,
44
,
53

and identity,
24
,
53

Alberta,
38
,
125

anglophones,
69
,
71

Arbour, Louise,
10
–11

Asia,
44

assembly, freedom of,
33
,
67

assimilation,
60
,
61
–63,
64
,
75
,
83

asylum, right of,
37

Attica prison,
3

Australia,
60

authenticity, ideal of,
99
,
100
,
105
,
107
,
111

autonomy

of cultures,
45
,
73

of the family,
95

individual,
39
,
90

Aztecs,
32

Baldwin, Robert,
132

Baltic states,
10
,
13

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
48

Bentham, Jeremy,
35

Berlin, Isaiah,
112
,
137

best practice, standard of,
43
–44

betrayal,
107
,
108
,
137

bilingualism,
63
,
64
,
69

Bill
101
(Charte de la langue française),
8
,
69

blacks,
3
,
5
,
11
,
31

Bleak House
(Dickens),
40

Bosnia,
50
,
140

Brazil,
60

Britain,
4
,
5
,
12
,
13
,
44
,
132

British Columbia,
120

British Conquest,
134
,
135

British North America Act,
116

British Proclamation (1763),
28
,
58

Burke, Edmund,
127

Burnt Church (N.B.),
16
,
121

Canada,
6
,
9
,
13
,
129

as civic nationalist state,
128
,
129
–30

common history of,
134
–36, distinctiveness of,
13
–14,
27
,
124
–25,
132

founding nations of,
129
,
130

founding of,
14
,
28
,
58
(see also
Confederation) as multi-ethnic, multinational

state,
10
,
11
,
65
,
66
,
130
,
141

political crisis in,
6
–7,
63
,
76
–77

political space of,
58
,
62
,
64
–65,
67
–68,
69
,
78
,
79
,
80
,
84
,
114
,
119

politics in,
11
,
13
–14,
33

pre-existing differences in,
58

pre-existing rights in,
28

Quebec in federation of,
115
–16,
132
–35

rights suspended in,
47

right to secede from,
8
–9,
133

capitalism,
23
,
24
,
29
,
91
,
92
,
106

capital punishment,
7
,
46

Charlottetown Accord,
77

Charte de la langue française (Bill
101
),
8
,
69

Charter
77
,
4

Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
13
,
17
,
81
,
117
,
125

aboriginal rights in,
12
,
65
,
81

affirmative action in,
12

consent to,
67
,
77

group rights in,
7
,
65

minority rights in,
66
,
131
–32

and national unity,
77

and Quebec,
77

child abuse,
22
,
93
,
101
–2,
103

protection from,
21
,
22
,
94
,
95
–96,
102
,
108
,
111

child care,
22
,
86
,
98
,
110
,
111

children,
90
,
123

agency of,
108
–9

of divorce,
93
,
94
,
100
,
104
,
107
–8,
109

need for limits of,
100
,
101
,
110

vs. parents,
18

and trust,
91
,
100
,
108
,
109

children’s rights,
1
,
20
–21,
22
,
85
,
95
,
108
–9.
See also

child abuse; corporal punishment

child support,
94
,
101

China,
13
,
32

choice, freedom of,
18
–19,
73

Christians,
69
–70,
72

churches,
75
–76

citizenship,
36
,
59
,
60
,
61
,
81
,
141

vs. aboriginal status,
60
,
63

civil and political rights derived from,
34

equality of,
61
,
125
,
132
,
141

and human rights,
37

unity of,
81
,
121
,
125

civic equality,
65
.
See also
equality, of rights

in Constitution,
58
,
81

of Québécois,
58

civic nationalist states,
128
–29,
129
–30

civil rights,
3
,
47

derived from citizenship,
34

in other countries,
4
,
11

political community createdby,
34

civil war,
9

class conflict,
25

class inequality,
19
,
92

collective bargaining,
5

collectivism,
23

colonialism,
3

Communist bloc,
3
–4

community,
23
,
34

bounds of,
36
,
41

created by rights,
32
,
33
–34,
53
,
54
,
125
,
127
,
139
,
140

Confederation,
28
,
58
.
See also
Canada, founding of

conflict,
6
,
25

adjudication of,
25
,
31

in Canadian rights struggles,
9
,
121

between competing rights,
25
,
30
,
31

vs. violence,
6
,
9
,
11

consent,
30
,
39
,
45
,
67
,
82
,
121
,
123

to citizenship,
61

to intervention,
50
,
51
,
52
,
73

to sacrifice of individual rights,
72

conservative critique of family

and rights,
95
,
96
–97,
99
–101,
102
–3,
104
,
106
,
109
,
111

Constitution,
58
,
65

constitutional reform,
12
,
65

in Canada,
7
,
9
,
116
–17

constitutional rights,
1
,
2

Convention on the Prevention and

Punishment of the Crime

of Genocide,
46

Convention on the Rights of the Child
46

Convention relating to the Status

of Refugees (1951),
37

corporal punishment,
21
,
95
–96

courts

in family life,
94
,
106
,
110

rights conflicts in,
75
,
76
,
81
–82

cultural rights,
63
,
66
–67,
113
,
120

as group rights,
24

and multiculturalism,
70

Czechoslovakia,
4

Dallaire, Roméo,
11

Davis Inlet (Nfld.),
16

Declaration of Independence

(U.S.),
28

Declaration of the Rights of Man

and Citizen,
35

deficit, federal,
119
Delgamuukw,
124

deliberative equality,
25
–26 de Maistre, Joseph,
35
,
39

democracy,
6
,
23
,
46
,
135

and aboriginal peoples,
60

and human rights,
46
–47

inclusiveness of,
6
,
14
,
26
,
117
–18

and inequality,
24
,
29

minorities protected from,
1
–2

and rights,
1
–2,
14
,
26
,
72

devolution,
13
,
134

Dickens, Charles,
40

Dion, Stéphane,
11

disabled,
114
,
118

dissent, right to,
54

division of labour,
86
,
98
.
See also under
family

effect of rights on,
22
,
85

states as,
78

division of powers,
81
,
133
–34

divorce,
22
,
85
,
93
–94,
101

children of,
93
,
94
,
100
,
104
,
107
–8,
109
,
110

impact of,
89
,
91
,
105

men in,
104
–5,
105
–6

rates of,
21
,
90
,
93
,
94
,
106
,
107

women’s rights in,
21

Divorce Act,
93
,
106

due process of law,
4
,
17
,
31

economic equality,
113

economic insecurity,
20

Edmund Pettus Bridge,
3

education,
13
,
73
,
110
,
111

in Quebec,
119
(see also under
immigrants; language rights) employers,
5
,
20
,
25

employment laws,
110

enforcement of rights,
35

English Canadians,
14
,
69
,
129
.
See also
anglophones nationalism of,
119
,
134

vs. Québécois,
18
,
19
,
64
,
114
,
119
,
122

entitlements,
30
,
56
,
126

derived from rights,
31

entry rights,
73

equality,
1
,
2
,
12
,
31
,
86
,
111
,
112

as assimilation,
62
,
63

of citizenship,
61
,
125
,
132
,
141

deliberative,
25
–26 and human difference,
14
–15,
41

of rights,
55
,
62
,
63
,
65
,
86
,
119
,
120
,
139
,
140
,
141

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