| Summary: | Extensively revised and updated, the second edition of Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada presents new materials on legal protection for human rights in Canada's post-Charter era. The book examines key issues of ethnicity and human rights in the context of principles derived from international human rights instruments. It describes how human rights violations, discriminating on the basis of race and ethnicity, create and sustain the minority status of diverse racial and ethnic groups across Canada. Discussion of Canada's three major ethnic constituencies analyses human rights issues of central concern to each: the aboriginal peoples; self-determination of aboriginal nations; racial and ethnic immigrant groups; anti-racism strategies and multiculturalism; the Franco-Quebecois and national sovereignty. Other issues - gender, religious symbolism, the mosaic versus the melting pot - are also examined. The scope and the strength of legal protections for human rights in Canada are evaluated at the levels of the law - human rights statutes - and constitutionally - the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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