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Just Rights: The Canadian Charter in Troubled Times

Just Rights: The Canadian Charter in Troubled Times

Bakan, Joel

Paperback

Series: Utp Insights

Canadian HistoryGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $39.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 24, 2026

ISBN10: 1487562268
ISBN13: 9781487562267
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Nov 24 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.63
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Just Rights, distinguished legal scholar Joel Bakan argues that our courts are obliged by the Canadian Charter to protect social justice and equality as core democratic and constitutional values, especially as they are increasingly vulnerable to neglect and attack in times of surging right-wing populism and neo-liberal priorities.

Canadian courts have made the claim that Charter rights should be interpreted broadly and generously to reflect and reinforce the fundamental rights of the Canadian body politic; however, they typically stop short of meaningfully implementing this crucial ambition. Bakan contends that it is time for courts to move beyond this practice of inaction. Just Rights builds upon existing principles of Charter law to demonstrate that Canadian courts can and should recognize how Charter rights oblige governments to act positively in aid of fairness and inclusion, and that they further necessitate private actors to respect them.

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