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Tables of Contents for Compassionate Canadians
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
1 HAMILTON'S CIVIC LEADERS
3
30
Research Population and Methodology
4
10
Democracy and Citizens' Moral Reasoning
14
3
Involvement in Civic Life
17
6
Canadian Human Rights Laws and Policies
23
5
Chapter Outline
28
5
2 BEING CANADIAN
33
20
Immigrant and Native-Born Civic Leaders' Views of Being Canadian
34
4
Canadian Characteristics
38
2
Freedom and Opportunity
40
1
Importance of Feeling Canadian
41
2
Symbols and Rituals
43
3
Feelings of Exclusion
46
3
Canadian Citizenship
49
4
3 MORAL CIRCUMSPECTION AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
53
22
Freedom of Speech: A Problematic Right
53
3
Community Harmony and the Need to Balance Rights
56
3
'Canadian Values' and Freedom of Speech in Public Life
59
5
Freedom of Speech versus Group Protection
64
5
Moral Circumspection
69
6
4 A NOTE ON HATE CRIMES
75
16
A Counter-Intuitive Finding
75
3
A Half-Half Split: Opinions on Harsher Punishments and Mitigating Circumstances
78
4
Comparison to Parliamentary Debate
82
3
Personal Responsibility and Hate Crimes
85
3
The Crime and the Punishment
88
3
5 THE GAY COUSIN: LEARNING TO ACCEPT GAY RIGHTS
91
23
The Gay Rights Debate
91
3
Equality Rights
94
3
Disapproval of Gays
97
3
Family Issues
100
6
Changing Social Mores: The Gay Cousin
106
6
Humanizing Gays and Lesbians
112
2
6 LIMITS TO MULTICULTURALISM: GAY RIGHTS, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, AND MINORITIES' RIGHTS
114
20
Cultural Relativism and Human Rights
114
2
The Response Continuum
116
3
Our Country, Our Rules
119
1
Unfamiliar Customs
120
3
Freedom of Religion as a Human Right
123
2
Learning to Accept the 'Canadian Way'
125
3
Culture, Rights, and Social Change
128
2
Hamilton Civic Leaders and the Academic Debate on Multiculturalism
130
4
7 THE SINS OF THE FATHERS: EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
134
22
The Policy Debate
134
4
The Meaning of Employment Equity
138
3
Police, Firefighters, and the 'Backlash' against Employment Equity
141
3
Whites and Social Power
144
2
Compensatory Justice and Group Rights
146
3
Poverty and Group Rights
149
3
Real Costs, Symbolic Insults
152
4
8 THE DUTY TO RESPECT: ABORIGINAL RIGHTS
156
22
Collective Rights
156
2
Attitudes towards Aboriginal Rights
158
3
Duties towards Aboriginal Peoples
161
2
Assimilation versus Cultural Particularism
163
3
Strict Equality versus Collective Rights
166
2
Self-Determination
168
4
Self-Determination and Canadian Human Rights Law
172
3
Canadian Public Discourse and Collective Rights
175
3
9 SHORT BOOTSTRAPS: POVERTY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
178
22
Economic Rights
178
5
Social Responsibility for Poverty
183
3
Unwed Mothers
186
5
The Work Ethic and the Welfare Trap
191
6
Short Bootstraps
197
3
10 A COMFORTABLE CONSENSUS: RESPONSIBILITY TO STRANGERS
200
15
National versus International Obligations
200
3
Responsibility to Strangers
203
2
Refugees and Immigrants
205
4
Foreign Aid
209
2
Goodwill and Legitimate Self-Interest
211
4
11 COMPASSIONATE CANADIANS
215
20
Compassion and Empathy
215
7
A Group Rights Consciousness
222
5
Human Rights and the Sense of Community
227
4
Compassionate Canadians?
231
4
Appendix: Interview Schedule
235
8
Notes
243
38
Bibliography
281
24
Index
305