Protecting Rights and Freedoms: Essays on the Charter's Place in Canada's Political, Legal, and Intellectual life (Heritage) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802074103 ISBN 13: 9780802074102

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1994

Synopsis

In his introduction to this collection of essays by constitutional experts, Philip Bryden says that Canadians can be proud of their commitment to the protection of rights and liberties in the Charter. Canada, he believes, is a better place to live then it would be otherwise. Nevertheless, as the essays in this book reveal, the case in favour of the Charter is not simple or one-sided. For instance, Kim Campbell, minister of justice at the time of writing, and Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail express concern that the Charter promotes a rights discourse that threatens to overwhelm the ordinary politics of recognizing and accommodating different interests. Dean Lynn Smith of the University of British Columbia law faculty observes that the Charter rights are better understood as complementing than as supplanting traditional mechanisms.

The authors, diverse in background and outlook, reflect varying points of view but share a significant degree of consensus on issues that need to be addressed.

About this title

About the Authors

Phillip Bryden is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria.

Stephen Davis is an author and journalist living in New England.

John S. Russell is an instructor and Department Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Langara College.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802074103
• ISBN 13: 9780802074102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 241
• Editor: Bryden Philip, Davis Stephen, Russell John