Table of Contents

Introduction: Constitution Building in a Multicultural State / Stephen Tierney

Part 1: The Evolution of Multiculturalism and Federalism in the Canadian Constitution

1 Trudeau as the First Theorist of Canadian Multiculturalism / Hugh Donald Forbes

2 Multicultural Rights, Multicultural Virtues: A History of Multiculturalism in Canada / Michael Temelini

3 The Canadian Model of Diversity in a Comparative Perspective / Will Kymlicka

4 The Death of Deference: the Implications of the Defeat of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords for Executive Federalism in Canada / Ian Peach

5 Federalism in Canada: A World of Competing Definitions and Views / Marc Chevrier

Part 2: The Management of Pluralism in Canada through Constitutional Law and Policy

6 Repositioning the Canadian State and Minority Languages: Accountability and the Action Plan for Official Languages / Daniel Bourgeois and Andrew F. Johnson

7 Making International Agreements and Making them Work within a Multicultural Federal State: The Experience of Canada / Hugh Kindred

8 New Constitutions and Vulnerable Groups: Brian Dickson’s Strategies in Interpreting the 1982 Charter / Jameson Doig

9 Whose Reality? Culture and Context before Canadian Courts / Robert J. Currie

10 Multiculturalism, Equality, and Canadian Constitutionalism: Cohesion and Difference / Joan Small

11 Welfare Rights as Equality Rights? Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada / Katherine Eddy

Appendix

Index

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Stephen Tierney's Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution is one of the more conventional histories that I would choose as a course text or recommend to a colleague seeking a one-stop primer on multiculturalism. [...] As fiddling and quibbling as some of these legal analyses may seem to the layperson, they provide a tangible demonstration of how, in practical terms, policy, as an expression of communal values, is translated into concrete rules and practices. -- Gaile McGregor, University of Western Ontario Canadian Review of Sociology, Issue 46.1

About the Author

Stephen Tierney is professor of constitutional law at the University of Edinburgh.

Contributors: Daniel Bourgeois and Andrew F. Johnson, Marc Chevrier, Robert J. Currie, Jameson Doig, Katherine Eddy, Hugh Donald Forbes, Hugh Kindred, Will Kymlicka, Ian Peach, Joan Small, and Michael Temelini.