Poverty

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ISBN: 9780774812870 | 0774812877
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/31/2007

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Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs at both the federal and the provincial levels 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 this ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Reading Gosselin
Reality Checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases	p. 23
But It's for Your Own Good	p. 40
Social Rights and "Common Sense": Gosselin through a Media Lens	p. 57
Social Citizenship and the State
Claiming Adjudicative Space: Social Rights, Equality, and Citizenship	p. 77
Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights	p. 96
Welfare Reform and the Re-Making of the Model Citizen	p. 119
The "Made in Quebec" Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Complex Relationship between Poverty and Human Rights	p. 139
Accounting for Rights and Money in the Canadian Social Union	p. 162
Social Citizenship and International Contexts
Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of Post-National Capital Control	p. 183
Minding the Gap: Human Rights Commitments and Compliance	p. 201
Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal	p. 221
Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: How Far Will the Courts Go?
Legal Theory after Cosselin
Taking Competence Seriously	p. 263
Dignity, Equality, and Second Generation Rights	p. 281
The Charter as an Impediment to Welfare Rollbacks: A Meditation on "Justice as Fairness" as a "Bedrock Value" of the Canadian Democratic Project	p. 297
Legal Activism Revived
Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation Margot Young
The Challenge of Litigating the Rights of Poor People: The Right to Legal Aid as a Test Case	p. 337
The Subversion of Human Rights by Governments in Canada	p. 355
Contributors	p. 373
Index	p. 377
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