Janice Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, Michael Valpy

Uneasy Partners

Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781554580125
• ISBN-10: 1554580129
• Artikelnr.: 26286131

Autorenporträt

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. Her most recent publications include The Cult of Efficiency (2001), Canada by Mondrian (2006), and The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar which won the 2007 Writers' Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing.,/p>

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Table of Contents for
Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada by Janet Gross
Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel,
Haroon Siddiqui, and Michael Valpy
Acknowledgements Janet Gross Stein
Introduction Frank Iacobucci
Searching for Equality Janice Gross Stein
Don't Blame Multiculturalism Haroon Siddiqui
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie John Ibbitson
An Evolutionary Story David Cameron
Canada: J'accuse/j'adore: Extracts from a Memoir John Meisel
Seismic Tremors: Religion and the Law Michael Valpy
Disentangling the Debate Will Kymlicka
Contributors
Index
Contributors
David Robertson Cameron, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is chair
and professor of political science at the University of Toronto, where he
served as vice-president from 1985 to 1987. He has divided his time between
public service (federally and provincially) and academic life. For the
government of Canada, he has served as Assistant Secretary to Cabinet for
Strategic and Constitutional Planning and was assistant undersecretary of
State from 1979 to 1985. For Ontario, he was Deputy Minister of
Intergovernmental Affairs from 1987 to 1990. His recent publications
include Cycling into Saigon: The 1995 Conservative Transition in Ontario
(2000), with Graham White; Disability and Federalism: Comparing Different
Approaches to Full Participation (2001), with Fraser Valentine; and Street
Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and Society (2002), with
Janice Gross Stein.
The Honourable Frank Iacobucci is counsel with Torys LLP and chair of
Torstar Corporation and a director of Tim Hortons Inc. He is also chair of
the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. He has taught at and was
dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto, and served as the
university's vice-president of internal affairs as well as provost and,
from September 2004 to June 2005, was interim president. In 1985 he was
appointed deputy minister of Justice and deputy attorney general for
Canada; in 1988, chief justice of the Federal Court of Canada; and from
1991 to 2004, a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2005, he was the
federal representative in the negotiations leading to a comprehensive
agreement to resolve the legacy of Indian Residential Schools. He is also a
member of the Ontario Law Commission and, in December 2006, was appointed
commissioner to lead an inquiry into the conduct of Canadian officials
regarding certain individuals. A recipient of numerous awards and honours
in Canada and abroad, he has authored or edited numerous books, articles,
and commentaries on a variety of subjects.
John Ibbitson has written on provincial, national and American politics
since joining The Globe and Mail in 1999. He has also written numerous
books on politics and public policy, the most recent being The Polite
Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream (2005). From 2002 to 2007 he
wrote the political affairs column for the Globe, based in Ottawa, before
moving to Washington to write commentary on American politics and society.
He is also a well-known author of novels for young readers, including
1812: Jeremy's War (1991) and Water Music, to be published in 2008 by
Kidscan Press.
Will Kymlicka holds the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at
Queen's University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the
Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and the Trudeau Foundation. He is
the author of six books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism,
Community and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy: An
Introduction (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship: A
Liberal Theory of Minority Right (1995), Finding Our Way: Rethinking
Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular:
Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (2001) and Multicultural
Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007).
His works have been translated into 30 languages.
John Meisel, of Czech origin, is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of
Political Science Emeritus at Queen's University. He is a Companion of the
Order of Canada, a former president of the Royal Society of Canada and a
one-time chair of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunication Commission of
Canada. Except for visiting professorships at Yale University and in the
United Kingdom, he spent his whole academic life at Queen's,where he
pioneered studies of elections and political parties, the role of
government in the arts, the politics of regulation and challenges to
national cohesion. Teaching, research, writing and nature have been his
passions and he finds it hard not to get involved in issues affecting the
common weal.
Haroon Siddiqui is a columnist for the Toronto Star. He is a former
editorial page editor, national editor, news editor and correspondent. He
has covered, among other events, the Soviet invasion and occupation of
Afghanistan, the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and, lately, the
emergence of China and India as global economic powers. He has written
extensively on multiculturalism and Canada's changing demography. Author of
Being Muslim (2006), a study on the impact of September 11 on Muslims
around the world, he is a recipient of both the Order of Canada and the
Order of Ontario.
Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the
Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for
International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada. She is the
author of The Cult of Efficiency (2001) and the coauthor of Networks of
Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000) and The Unexpected
War: Canada in Kandahar (2007). She is co-editor of Street Protests and
Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and Society (2001) and a contributor
to Canada by Picasso: The Faces of Federalism (2006). She was the Massey
lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by
the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to
public debate. She is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. In 2006, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws
by the University of Alberta and the University of Cape Breton.
Michael Valpy is a senior writer for The Globe and Mail. He began his
journalistic career in Vancouver and became associate editor and national
affairs columnist of The Vancouver Sun. For The Globe and Mail, he has been
a member of the editorial board, Ottawa national political columnist,
Africa correspondent, deputy managing editor and a national columnist on
social policy and urban issues. He is co-author of two books on the
Constitution-The National Deal (1982) and To Match a Dream (1998)-and
co-author with Globe colleague Erin Anderssen of The New Canada: A Profile
of the Next Generation (2004). He has produced public affairs documentaries
for CBC Radio, written for Maclean's, Elm Street, Canadian Living,
Literary Review of Canada, Time Canada and Policy Options magazines and won
three National Newspaper Awards - two for foreign reporting and one for an
examination of how the schools cope with children of dysfunctional
families. In 1997, Canada's Trent University awarded him an honorary
doctorate for his journalism.