Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs have been cut back, eliminated, or recast in exclusionary and punitive forms. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism responds to these changes by examining the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.It challenges prevailing assumptions about the role of governments and the methods of accountability in the field of social and economic justice.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 344.7103/25
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- 9780774856010 9780774812870
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- KE3500.Z85
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- P68 2007eb
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- 1 electronic text (x, 389 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 12
- Part 1: Reading Gosselin 32
- 1 Reality Checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases 34
- 2 But It’s for Your Own Good 51
- 3 Social Rights and “Common Sense”: Gosselin through a Media Lens 68
- Part 2: Social Citizenship and the State 86
- 4 Claiming Adjudicative Space: Social Rights, Equality, and Citizenship 88
- 5 Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women’s Rights 107
- 6 Welfare Reform and the Re-Making of the Model Citizen 130
- 7 The “Made in Québec” Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Complex Relationship between Poverty and Human Rights 150
- 8 Accounting for Rights and Money in the Canadian Social Union 173
- Part 3: Social Citizenship and International Contexts 192
- 9 Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of Post-National Capital Control 194
- 10 Minding the Gap: Human Rights Commitments and Compliance 212
- 11 Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal 232
- 12 Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: How Far Will the Courts Go? 251
- Part 4: Legal Theory after Gosselin 272
- 13 Taking Competence Seriously 274
- 14 Dignity, Equality, and Second Generation Rights 292
- 15 The Charter as an Impediment to Welfare Rollbacks: A Meditation on “Justice as Fairness” as a “Bedrock Value” of the Canadian Democratic Project 308
- Part 5: Legal Activism Revived 326
- 16 Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation 328
- 17 The Challenge of Litigating the Rights of Poor People: The Right to Legal Aid as a Test Case 348
- 18 The Subversion of Human Rights by Governments in Canada 366
- Contributors 384
- Index 388
- A 388
- B 389
- C 389
- D 391
- E 392
- F 392
- G 392
- H 394
- I 394
- J 394
- K 394
- L 394
- M 395
- N 396
- O 396
- P 397
- Q 397
- R 397
- S 397
- T 399
- U 400
- V 400
- W 400
- Y 400