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Do Women Have It Better in Canada?
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Item Title Do Women Have It Better in Canada?
Guest DesLauriers, Marguerite
Guest Hosek, Chaviva
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Moderator Coxe, Donald
Date CreatedDecember 01, 1991
Description

As Mr. Coxe frames the question, Canada's crisis is not just Quebec versus Anglo Canada; in addition, "various groups of Canadians who transcend provincial boundaries are ... saying they want to be a part of reshaping Canada now that almost everything is up for discussion." One such group is feminists, well represented in this fast-moving exchange. CH: "One of the differences between Canada and the United States is that there is ... a general social agreement that sharing some of the risks of life in a communal way, through the state, makes sense. That's the reason that we have the kind of Medicare that we have in this country and you don't have it. That's one of the reasons we have maternity insurance and maternity benefits and various other programs. It's a different culture." ... WFB: "Isn't the discovery of any right also the discovery of somebody else's duty? If you're going to get paid when you have a child, somebody in this room's going to have to put up the money ..." MD: "I want to quarrel with the language of 'discovering rights' as though they're sort of brute facts. Rights are conferred in a social context and used in a social context."

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Place RecordedMontreal, Quebec, Canada
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0917
Record Number80040.1172
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