The Rights Revolution (20 page)

and scarcity,
92

equal pay for equal work,
86

equal protection under the law,
131
,
141

ethnic cleansing,
140

ethnic conflict,
13
,
140

ethnic nationalist states,
128
–29,
132
,
140

eugenics laws,
38

Europe,
3
,
7
,
12
,
43
–44,
91

European Convention on Human

Rights,
44

European Court of Human Rights,
44

exit rights,
18
–19,
73
,
79
,
107

family,
20
,
22
,
90
,
91
,
94
,
109
–10.
See also
child abuse; divorce; women, abuse of

working families as community of rights-bearing equals,
21
,
22
,
100
,
108
,
110
,
112

crisis in,
21
–22,
102
(
see also

conservative critique) division of labour in,
22
,
85
,
86
,
98
,
105
,
110

sacrifice in,
97
–98,
99
,
103
–4,
107
,
110

stability of,
90
,
92
–93,
103
–4 trust and love in,
21
,
22
,
91

types of,
90
,
102
–4,
111

family values,
102
–3,
110
–11,
122

federalism,
13
,
119
,
133

feminism,
21
,
94
–95,
98
–99 “Fidelio,”
48

force, limits to use of,
51
,
52
,
53

France,
4
,
12
,
13
,
61
,
127
,
128

freedom of assembly,
33
,
67

freedom of choice,
18
–19,
73

freedom of speech,
5
,
17
,
33
,
88

French Canadians,
14
,
63
.
See also
Quebec; Québécois

language rights of,
62
,
63
,
120

as minority,
66
,
70
,
71

French Revolution,
35
,
64
,
127
,
128

Fukuyama, Francis,
89
–90

gay rights,
1
,
7
,
20
,
85
,
86
,
87
,
93
,
110
,
113
,
116
,
117

gays,
88
.
See also
same-sex families

approval of,
87
,
89
,
122
–23

vs. straights,
19
,
114

Geneva Convention,
46

genocide,
46
,
51

Germany,
47
–48,
49
,
128

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
47

good, language of,
20
,
21
,
22

government power,
28
,
30

limits on,
6
,
28
–29,
30
,
97

Great Depression,
47
,
98

grievances, legitimacy of,
29
,
32
,
33

group difference,
57
–58,
64
,
66

group identity,
60
–61,
64

group recognition,
86
–87 group rights,
8
,
67
,
70
,
71

in Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
7
,
65

as enhancing individual rights,
24
,
66

vs. individual rights,
18
–19,
24
,
66
,
67
,
69
,
71
,
77
–78,
125

and individuals within

groups,
18
–19,
71
–74,
79

to nationhood,
60

in other countries,
8
,
12

group-rights regimes,
13

Gwyn, Richard,
128

Havel, Václav,
4

health care,
7
,
30
,
110
,
111

Hitler, Adolf,
23
,
47

Hobbes, Thomas,
56

Holocaust,
17
,
42
,
138

human difference,
53
,
55
,
141

and equality,
14
–15,
41

and human identity,
14
–15,
35
,
41
,
53
,
137

in politics,
14
,
57

protection of,
2
,
43
,
53

human rights,
2
,
35
,
37
,
38
,
41

and democracy,
46
–47 function of,
39
,
43
,
48

as inherent,
28
,
34

and local values,
45
–46 and natural law,
43

origins of,
34
,
39
–40,
43

as residual system of entitlement,
36
,
48

and self-defence,
36
,
43

as self-limiting authority,
51
–52

as standard of best practice,
43
–44

and state law,
28

human-rights legislation,
49

and national laws,
45
–46 Humphrey, John,
10

identity.
See also
group identity and agency,
24

Canadian,
13

of majority,
114
,
130

and politics,
14
–15

immigrants

assimilation of,
71

impact of,
129
–30

limits on numbers of,
37

vs. native-born Canadians,
114

in Quebec,
71
,
72
,
119
,
132

rights of,
36
–37,
66
–67,
69
,
72

imperialism,
50
,
52
,
60
,
123

income inequality and democracy,
29

invisibility of,
19
,
92

and rights talk,
19
–20,
24
,
30

Indian Act,
59
,
63

individualism,
15
,
24
,
33

capitalist,
23
,
24

in other countries,
11
,
12

individualist rights regimes,
12

individual rights,
11
,
29
,
33
,
49
,
65

equality of,
7
,
63
,
65

vs. group rights,
18
–19,
24
,
66
,
67
,
69
,
71
,
77
–78,
125

within groups,
71
–74,
79

indivisibility,
39
,
40

of rights,
48
–49,
53
,
125
–26

inequality,
92
.
See also particular forms of inequality
and democracy,
24
,
29

and rights talk,
19
–20,
24
,
29
,
30
,
92

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,
10
–11

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,
10

Internet,
5
,
124

intervention,
44
–45,
49
–52,
73

conditions for,
50
–52 consent to,
50
,
51
,
52
,
73

limits to,
97

military,
49
–50,
51
–52,
84

in personal lives,
50
,
52
,
94
–96

intimacy,
20
,
90
,
100
,
111

Islamic law,
45

Islamic world,
44
.
See also
Muslims

Israel,
4

Italian city states,
64

Japan,
90

Jews,
4
,
42
,
47
,
48

Judaism, Orthodox,
18
,
19
,
72

justice,
2
,
30
,
82
,
112

justification, right to,
108
,
112

just society,
64

Kiev,
4

King, William Lyon Mackenzie,
132

King Lear
(Shakespeare),
146
n11 Kolakowski, Leszek,
33

Kosovo,
50
,
133
,
140

Kymlicka, Will,
11

Lafontaine, Louis-Hippolyte,
132

Laforest, Guy,
11

Lamer, Antonio,
124
,
141

land claims,
7
,
80
,
83

land rights,
68

aboriginal,
1
–2,
8
,
59
,
68
,
80
,
84
,
113
,
120
–21,
124

as group rights,
18
,
24
,
66

non-aboriginal,
68
,
81
,
84
,
123
–24,
149
n7

language rights,
1
,
7
,
13
,
61
,
62
,
68
,
71
,
118
,
120

as group rights,
18
,
24
,
66

of immigrants,
66
–67,
69
,
71
,
72

in other countries,
10
,
12

as privileges,
74
,
77

in Quebec,
63
,
77
,
134
(see also
Quebec, language legislation in) Lanzmann, Claude,
138

Lapointe, Ernest,
132

law,
45
,
82
.
See also
due process of law; human-rights legislation; natural law

equality under,
131
,
141

and human rights,
28
,
45
–46

rule of,
39
,
121
,
126

taken into one’s own hands,
36
,
121

League for Social Reconstruction,
10

legal culture

of Canada,
13

of Quebec,
58
,
134

lesbians, rights of,
1
,
20
.
See also

gay rights liberals, views on family and

rights of,
95
,
97
,
101
,
102
–4,
106
,
108
–9

Locke, John,
57
,
139

love

of Canada,
124
–25

in families,
21
,
22

right to,
21

majorities

identity of,
114
,
130

in democracies,
2
,
46

limits on,
2
,
65
,
70
,
114
,
118

and national unity,
114

privileges of,
69
–70

recognition of,
122
–23

Mao Zedong,
23

marriage,
90
,
101

right to,
47
,
73
,
86
,
110

Marx, Karl,
25
,
53

McLachlin, Beverly,
13

Meech Lake Accord,
77

men,
88

abuse by,
22

in divorce,
104
–5,
105
–6

as fathers,
101
,
104
–5

vs. women,
18
,
19
,
25

mentally handicapped,
38
–39

minorities,
3
,
12
,
13
,
46
,
88

and affirmative action,
74

national,
11
,
66
,
68

protected from democracy,
1
–2

recognition of,
114
,
121

minority languages,
71

minority rights,
10
,
11
,
66
,
69
,
70
,
79
,
83
,
87
,
113

vs. national rights,
66

in Quebec,
71
,
131
–32

mobility rights,
118

Moguls,
32

Montgomery (Alab.),
3

Montreal,
131

moral individualism,
15

multiculturalism,
7
,
70
,
130
,
131