The Politics of gender, ethnicity, and language in Canada
By: Alan Cairns and Cynthia Williams, research coordinators.
Contributors: Cairns, Alan.; Williams, Cynthia.
Series: The Collected research studies,; vol. 34
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Canada -- Social conditions -- 1971-1991; Feminism -- Canada; Minorities -- Government policy -- Canada; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations; Canada -- Languages -- Political aspects; Canada -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Canada, like other industrial nations, is undergoing widespread social change at a faster pace than ever before. Many features of our basic institutions are being transformed and some of the values on which they were based are being weakened or swept away to be replaced by others. As this Royal Commission indicated in its first report, Challenges and Choices, the scope and implications of these changes call "into question basic assumptions, values, and institutions at every level of society, from the shop floor to the cabinet room, to the international economic system," but while many values change, others endure."--
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Continuity and change in Canadian values / Bernard Blishen; title: Multiculturalism and Canadian nation-building / Raymond Breton; title: State, language, and society / Eric Waddell; title: Women's issues and the women's movement in Canada since 1970 / Sandra Burt; title: An assessment of the probable impact of aboriginal self-government in Canada / Roger Gibbins and J. Rick Ponting.