Social Justice and the Constitution: Perspectives on a Social Union for Canada 9780773595736

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Joel Bakan (editor)
David Schneiderman (editor)

Table of contents :
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Constitutional Rhetoric and Social Justice: Reflections on the Justiciability Debate
3. Le debat sur les droits sociaux au Canada: respecte-t-il la juridicite de ces droits?
4. Social Charter Issues
5. Constitutional Dialogue
6. What's Wrong with Social Rights?
7. Creation Stories: Social Rights and Canada's Social Contract
8. The Social Charter: Poor Politics for the Poor
9. The Constitutional Politics of Poverty
10. Social Minima and Social Rights: Justifyng Social Minima Socially
Appendix I: Draft Social Charter
Appendix II: Ontario's Proposal for a Social Charter for Canada
Appendix III: Report of the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada (Beaudoin-Dobbie)
Appendix IV: Consensus Report on the Constitution--Charlottetown Final Text
Appendix V: Charlottetown Accord Draft Leagal Text

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