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French colonization in North America was characterized by a metis model of relations with the Natives whose cultures have inspired social critique of Western World. After the Conquest and the cession in 1763, the francophones repressed the Indian part of themselves to avoid a stigma and allow themselves to claim collective rights as a civilized people. Beside their long common history and deep mutual cultural influences, the French-Canadians shared an analogous status of a conquered people in its childhood. Caught in the ambiguous position of colonized colonisers, the French-Canadians defined their cultural inheritance as exclusively French. Having to justify their close relations with the Indians, they proclaimed having been the torch carriers of faith and civilization among Indians. Never in their mission, would have they fallen in savagery. French Canada would then be geographically in America, but not culturally, because, according to its elite, without any trace of miscegenation. Debunking this fear to pass for a savage would probably reveal a sense being ashamed of oneself.
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This article seeks to explain the failure of the recent attempt at sentencing reform. First, the authors point out the major deficiencies in the formal sources of law that sought to implement it : the legislation and its interpretation, as well as their philosophical and doctrinal underpinnings. Secondly, the authors look beyond the contradictions and inconsistencies of the formal sources to consider the vast array of systemic rules and informal practices that are generated by the various actors of the criminal justice system in response to its internal tensions. The authors argue that it is the inability of the reformers to understand the significance of this component and to include it in the reform that ultimately doomed the whole endeavour.
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At the end of the Uruguay Round talks, the social dimension to world trade liberalization is still a subject of sharp controversy. The question has come up time and again over the last fifty years, particularly in response to certain American initiatives. It never could provide common ground for the interests of all parties present on the international stage. The possibility of agreeing on its raison d'être has seemed, from that point on, impossibly vain. In a context of increasingly deeper economic integration, in which trade liberalization is not inconsequential to domestic industries, the seriousness of the worker protection issue is no longer debatable. The idea of linking the opening of markets to respect for certain basic social standards seems both unavoidable to some and unacceptable to others. The following article casts a retrospective look on the debates raised during the last few decades over what is now commonly called the "social clause".