Women’s rights and minorities’ rights in Canada. The challenges of intersectionality in Supreme Court jurisprudence

After a discussion of the impact of the principle of equality, entrenched in the Charters approved in Canada since the 1867 British North American Act, this essay then focuses on the related Supreme Court’s adjudications. A brief analysis of the case-law concerning gender equality is followed by the...

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Main Author: Scotti Valentina Rita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for Studies on Federalism 2017-12-01
Series:Perspectives on Federalism
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pof.2017.9.issue-3/pof-2017-0025/pof-2017-0025.xml?format=INT