E-raamat: Transforming Rights: Reflections from the Front Lines

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One: Introduction
1 Personal File
2 School, University, Graduate Studies
3 A Public Service Career
a) The Department of External Affairs
b) The Secretary of State's Department and the Department of Communications
c) Official Languages Commissioner
d) Canadian Ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg
e) Human Rights Commissioner
f) Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee

Part Two: Language Rights
1 The Background to Language Reform
2 The Origins of the Royal Commission on Biligualism and Biculturalism
3 The Royal Commission Recommendations and Government Reactions
a) Preliminary Report
b) General Introduction
c) The Official Languages
d) Education
e) The Work World
f) Other Ethnic Groups
g) The Federal Capital
h) Voluntary Associations
4 Summary of Commission Proposals and Government Reactions

Part Three: Human Rights
1 Introduction
2 The Universality of Human Rights Norms
3 Perspectives on Human Rights
a) Narrow and Broad Approaches
b) Rights and Responsibilities
c) The Pendulum Effect and the Rights Industry
d) Rights and the Press
e) Conflicting Rights
4 The Canadian Experience
a) Policy Objectives
b) Implementation
c) The Charter, Legislation, and the Courts
d) Ombudsman Offices and Human Rights Commissions
5 Discrimination
a) Women's Rights and Sex Discrimination
b) Sexual Orientation
c) Age Discrimination
d) Disability
e) Race, Ethnic Origin, and Religion
6 Multiculturalism
a) Background
b) Quebec - The Bouchard-Taylor Commission
7 Employment Equity
8 Pay Equity
9 Aboriginal Rights

Part Four: Human Rights and International Relations
Terminology
1 International Human Rights Machinery
2 The High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 Regional Human Rights Machinery
4 The Human Rights Covenants and the Treaty Bodies
5 Canada and International Human Rights Machinery
6 Canada and Human Rights Violations

Part Five: Summing Up and Conclusions
1 Language Rights
2 Human Rights

Appendix
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index