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HARP-156 |
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Incrementalism and human rights reform |
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Journal of Canadian Studies, v.28(3), 1993 pg 29-44. CBCA Fulltext: http://delos.lib.sfu.ca:8366/cgi-bin/slri/z3950.CGI/137.82.100.228.593447329/?cbca.db |
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| Year: |
1993 |
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| Keywords: |
anti-discrimination, Canada, culture, human rights, law, non-discrimination, Ontario, British Columbia, civil and political rights |
| Abstract: |
Human rights programs across Canada invariably suffered during the 1980s and early 1990s under government policies of restraint. Human rights commissions were underfunded and the enforcement of anti-discrimination law was parsimonious. But some programs were allowed to suffer much more than others. While Ontario’s continued to provide a modicum of anti- discrimination protection despite the restraint, the system in British Columbia was dismantled and replaced by the weakest program of human rights protection in Canada (from 1983 to 1990). These different developments may be explained by the use of an incrementalist approach to human rights reform in Ontario as opposed to a non-incrementalist one in British Columbia, each in turn reflecting the different political cultures in the two provinces. |
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Keywords: anti-discrimination, British Columbia, Canada, civil and political rights, culture, human rights, law, non-discrimination, Ontario
