Advancing Social Rights in Canada

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ACS4

Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781552213759

<p> Canada is at a crossroads. The gap between our national self-image as a country that respects human rights and the reality of socio-economic inequality and exclusion demands a re-engagement with the international human rights project and a recommitment to the values of social justice and equality affirmed in the early years of the <em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms</em>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> This book sketches a blueprint for reconceiving and retrieving social rights in diverse spheres of human rights practice in Canada, both political and legal. Leading academics and activists explore how the <em>Charter</em> and administrative decision making should protect social rights to health, housing, food, water and the environment; how homelessness and anti-poverty strategies could incorporate international and constitutional rights; how the federal spending power, fiduciary obligations towards Aboriginal people, and substantive equality for women and people with disabilities, can become tools for securing social rights; and how social protest movements can interact with courts and urban spaces to create new <em>loci</em> for social rights claims.</p> <p>  </p> <p> This book provides inspiration as well as an indispensable resource for all those who share an interest in advancing human rights and social justice in Canada.</p>