CRIM 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Beverley Mclachlin, Peter Hogg, Ultra Vires
29 Nov 2017
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Chief justice beverley mclachlin - cultural genocide (video) How can human kind honour what is distinctive about our separate identities and at the same time see diversity as a source of blessing. How can we embrace differences to live more peacefully. Notion of tolerance in the sense of willingness to allow existence of opinions and behaviours with which one does not necessarily agree. Tolerance must be the norm (default position) in modern society, but we also need to move past that. But tolerance has its limits some things that should not and can not be tolerated. Debate between tolerance and intolerance and where we should draw the line. Tolerance necessary condition for peace in a pluralistic society. Tolerance does not allow us to retain our internal biases; command us to respect differences; command us to understand the richness of those differences. Canada seen as nation of tolerance adopted charter in 1982.
