POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: David Held, Canadian Identity, Pierre Trudeau
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Equality in opportunities, equality of outcome (to a certain extent) the delivery of government services, representation of voice. Different forms of equality, canada is an experiment of trying to reconcile different visions of equality. Eternal debate about canada: the nature of equality. Canada was created from two founding nationalities: french and english. This means that the french need special arrangements to have the same power as the rest of canada. Canada has 4 regions: atlantic, quebec, ontario, west. Each region believes their region should be treated equality. Provincial equality : 10 provinces that have to be equal. These different views of equality bring different agendas, visions and solutions. Overall, canada doesn"t have a clear vision of equality. Canada still debates what version of equality should prevail. Supreme court of canada (1989), andrews v. law society of british columbia. Andrews was denied access to joining the law society of british columbia as he was not a.