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Compassionate Canadians : civic leaders discuss human rights / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442673182
  • 1442673184
  • 1282022857
  • 9781282022850
  • 9786612022852
  • 661202285X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Compassionate Canadians.DDC classification:
  • 323/.0971 22
LOC classification:
  • JC599.C2 H69 2003eb
Other classification:
  • 71.79
  • 86.81
Online resources:
Contents:
Hamilton's civic leaders -- Being Canadian -- Moral circumspection and freedom of speech -- A note on hate crimes -- The gay cousin: learning to accept gay rights -- Limits to multiculturalism: gay rights, women's rights, and minorities' rights -- The sins of the fathers: employment equity -- The duty to respect: aboriginal rights -- Short bootstraps: poverty and social responsibility -- A comfortable consensus: responsibility to strangers -- Compassionate Canadians.
Summary: Understanding the moral reasoning of these civic leaders helps to illuminate the moral consensus among ordinary Canadian citizens around the formal human rights laws that govern Canada. It also illustrates the sort of human rights policies that Canadians are likely to support.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index.

Hamilton's civic leaders -- Being Canadian -- Moral circumspection and freedom of speech -- A note on hate crimes -- The gay cousin: learning to accept gay rights -- Limits to multiculturalism: gay rights, women's rights, and minorities' rights -- The sins of the fathers: employment equity -- The duty to respect: aboriginal rights -- Short bootstraps: poverty and social responsibility -- A comfortable consensus: responsibility to strangers -- Compassionate Canadians.

Print version record.

Understanding the moral reasoning of these civic leaders helps to illuminate the moral consensus among ordinary Canadian citizens around the formal human rights laws that govern Canada. It also illustrates the sort of human rights policies that Canadians are likely to support.

English.

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