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The Meech Lake Accord: Entrenching a Pecking Order of Minority Rights

Year:
1988
Authors and Collaborators :
Kallen, Evelyn;  
Volume and number:
, 14
Journal:
, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques
Pages :
, S107-S120
www.jstor.org/stable/3551221
Abstract
Ce texte soutient, à partir d'une approche des droits de la personne, que certains aspects de l'Accord du lac Meech augmentent, et incruste, dans le cadre de la Constitution, des inégalités de status entre et au sein des minorités ethniques et non ethniques du Canada. L'analyse révèle que, contrairement aux principes internationaux des droits de la personne, l'Accord reconnaît une hiérarchie inégalitaire des droits des minorités. Bien que des éléments de base d'une telle hiérarchie se retrouvent dans la Charte et les documents constitutionnels afférents, ce texte soutient que l'Accord fait plus que renforcer le statu quo et qu'il peut être interprété comme un amendement rétrograde qui nous ramène aux priorités constitutionnelles du Canada de 1867.

From a human rights perspective, this paper argues that the provisions of the Meech Lake Accord serve to augment and to ossify constitutionally-entrenched status inequalities between and among ethnic and non-ethnic minorities in Canada. The analysis reveals that, contrary to international human rights principles, the Accord endorses an inegalitarian pecking order of minority rights. While the blueprint for this hierarchy of rights may be found in Charter and related constitutional provisions, this paper argues that the Accord does not simply reinforce the constitutional status quo. Rather, the Accord may be interpreted as a retrogressive amendment which harks back to the constitutional priorities of Canada, 1867.
Theme :
RightLinguistic minorities
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