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Title:Uneasy Partners : Multiculturalism & Rights in Canada
Author:Janice Stein, David Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel & Hooran Siddiqui (eds)
ISBN:1554580129 : 9781554580125
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:165
Weight: .288 Kg.
Published:Wilfrid Laurier University Press - April 2007
List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Multicultural studies: Canada


After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens the conflict among religion, culture, and equality rights and proposes to shift some of the existing boundaries. Other contributors disagree strongly, arguing that this position might seek to limit freedoms in the name of justice, that the problem is badly framed, or that silence is a virtue in rebalancing norms. The contributors not only debate the analytic arguments but infuse their discussion with their personal experiences, which have shaped their perspectives on multiculturalism in Canada. This volume is a highly personal as well as strongly analytic discussion of multiculturalism in Canada today.

Introduction; Searching for Equality; Don't Blame Multiculturalism; Let Sleeping Dogs Lie; An Evolutionary Story; Canada: J'Accuse / J'Adore: Extracts from a memoir; Seismic Tremors; Religion and the law; Disentangling the Debate; Index.