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This article examines two problems faced by the Canadian population: the current conditions of Aboriginal children and the lack of concrete course of action established to improve the dire conditions and lack of access to basic resources. This article proposes that a human rights framework can be utilized to address the disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in Canada. An integrated human rights framework acknowledges the complexity of the relationship between universal, natural and legal rights and provides a system of accountability to track the quality and success of the improvements made by the government of Canada. Due to the complex and systematic nature of the problem, a human rights framework provides a way to supplement the treaties and agreements that the government of Canada has often used as reasons for not taking responsibility. This paper concludes that an integrated human rights framework is an effective way to address the significant gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in terms of access and funding for social, health and educational services.
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AbstractThe article examines the evolution of the official language minority communities' forms of governance and relations with the federal government. Horizontal governance aims at implementing the federal government's commitment to official language minorities and appears to be an innovative form of organization. However until 2003, it also seemed to be a substitute for direct and sustained action from the federal government on behalf of its official language minorities. This article examines the evolution of governance and explains how it has raised important issues relating to the development of Francophones living in a minority environment.
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In this article, we propose that the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism is best understood in the context of the End of Empire and that it was in particular a response to the demands of French Canadians in the face of postwar British Canadian attachment to the Empire. We believe that a remarkable cultural and political continuity exists between colonial British Canada and today's postcolonial Canada. We argue that the End of Empire backdrop had a significant impact in British Canada in the 1950s and 1960s and that this backdrop has not entirely disappeared. To better understand the context of the 1960s, we propose a brief survey of recent scholarship on the British Empire and of French Canada's place in the Empire on the eve of the Commission's work, and we contemplate the continued resistance, fifty years on, to the expansion of Francophone rights in circumstances that are nonetheless postcolonial.
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ABSTRACTThe fight against inflation is an imperative in both the Annual Report of the Bank of Canada for the year 1989 and in the Federal Budget of April 1990. In the opinion of the Bank of Canada, Canadian interest rates will not decrease as long as inflation seems to accelerate. And interest payments related to the public debt are so important that federal deficit cannot decrease without a reduction of interest rates. The federal government can contribute to the fight against inflation by decreasing its deficit, i.e. by weakening the pressures it exerts on domestic demand. But the solution to Canada's economic problems is more complex. A trade-off must be found between them. The austerity program of the federal government is not welcome in a context of economic slowdown. The exchange rate of the Canadian dollar must decrease to provide oxygene to economic policies.
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This paper addresses the migratory movement brought about by the Conquest through the study of a group of 127 “needy” Canadians at La Rochelle in 1761-1762. Who were they and why did they leave Canada ? How were they treated and what would become of them in France ? Did some of them eventually return to Canada ? The specific and particularly expressive picture emerging from the individual and collective experience of these Canadian commoners acts as a counterweight to the traditional historiographical representation of nobles, military officers and other Canadian elite who went to France at the time of the Conquest.