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The Rise and Fall of Economic and Social Rights – What Next?
Friday, June 11th, 2010
May 29, 2010
In the last election, over 60% of Canadians voted for parties promising redistributive policy initiatives in housing, pensions, employment insurance benefits, post-secondary education, and programs for people with disabilities. These all involve social and economic rights… Now is the time for the federal government to join in and do its share. Now is the time to act on behalf of the poor and to work for more equality. Now is the time to live up to our decision made in 1976 to build a Canada committed equally to all rights-economic and social, as well as political and civil.
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