POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Will Kymlicka, Interculturalism, Asymmetric Federalism
9 Dec 2017
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David held: great theorist of equality today, democracy is about the ideal of equality. There are many different versions of equality. 1946: w. l morton, descried canada as 2 nationalities, 4 regions. For him canada was a special country, he was describing a post-modern country, it was many identities. There isn"t one single history of canada, there are many. For morton, a lack of a common origin story, we can"t fall back on it to solve political problems. There are popular narratives and elite narratives. The elites in quebec have different narratives and the people have different narratives. All these narratives prevent congealing around one answer to political debates. We turn to the supreme court of canada. We don"t necessarily trust it but it can give us a clear cut answer, appears to be neutral, impartial, gives an objective answer. The narrative the supreme court talks about the accommodation of difference is the essence of true equality.
