Toward the Charter
Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2003
- Subjects
- General, Civil Rights
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773571006
- Publish Date
- May 2003
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
The important roles played by parliamentarians such as John Diefenbaker and academics such as F.R. Scott are placed alongside those of trade unionists, women, and a long list of individuals representing Canada's multicultural groups to reveal the diversity of the bill of rights movement. At the same time MacLennan weaves Canadian-made arguments for a bill of rights with ideas from the international human rights movement led by the United Nations to show that the Canadian experience can only be understood within a wider, global context.