Social Change in Canada – HREQ 1880 – Summer 2021

Tutorial 4

Simran Dhanote

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Dominique Clément

Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982

Clément’s article Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937 – 1982 is based on Human Rights and Social movements and how they were enforced, modernized, violated and stood up for.

Clément’s objectives for the book he was writing was to explore some of the most vexed human rights violations in Canadian history and to study professional social movement organizations. With developing on both of his objectives, Clément was interested in exploring human rights and social movements and how both English and French Canada affect it.

Clément stated that throughout history human rights movements have fought for similar rights issues but from different angles.

For example, the single mothers in Ontario before 1987. If there was evidence that a woman receiving welfare had a man in the house if welfare would have been revoked. This rule only applied to women receiving welfare and not men. This regulation was fought for by CCLA and BCCLA who tried to get it reworded. For the amount of welfare people received the Ligue des droits de I’homme and the Newfoundland Human Rights Association fought for it.

He argued that the evolution of human rights had been linked to the modernization of the state and that human rights activists have embraced a basic approach when it comes to human rights even after investigated the root of violations.

He stated that duties corresponding to human rights rely on that state as the human rights advocated assume, which he believes is problematic. Because that puts too much power on the state. Clément also noted that legal scholars and others who study human rights only focus on courts and governments as if they were they only ones responsible for human rights innovations.

One of the reasons he chose to right the book was to compare French and English experiences. He argued that most of the historical or sociological studies are written based off of English Canada and does not include French.

Most the books written are in English and Canada offers national studies, he argued that with excluding French literature how is that national studies.

Both English and French should be engaged in studies of social movements or human rights. To get knowledge from different experiences across Canada.

He basically was trying to say that when it comes to human rights and social movements everything should be considered. Both the languages and experiences from English and French Canada. Different perspectives should be taken into consideration when establishing human rights and what violations can occur based off of gender and economic inequalities.

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