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Compassionate Canadians : civic leaders discuss human rights / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Canada.
- Human rights.
- Civil rights--Canada.
- Civil rights.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-02285-7
- 9786612022852
- 1-4426-7318-4
- OCLC:
- 804815587
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