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Authors: Michael Ignatieff
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. I first made these arguments in a lecture titled “Liberal Values, a Defence: The Keith Davey Lecture,” delivered at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1996.
20
. Isaiah Berlin,
Four Essays on Liberty
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1969), 167–72.
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. Richard Gwyn,
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(Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996), ch. 10.
2
. Al Etmanski,
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(Burnaby, B.C.: Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network, 2000). I am indebted to Vancouver city councillor Sam Sullivan for discussing issues relating to the rights of the disabled with me.
3
. “Legal Lobster War Heats Up,”
Globe and Mail,
18 Aug. 2000.
4
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16 Aug. 2000.
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6
. Flanagan,
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ch. 2.
7
. Canada, Supreme Court,
Delgamuukw: Decision on Aboriginal
Title
(Vancouver: Greystone Books, 1998), 13.
8
. For a discussion of these terms, see my book
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism
(Toronto: Penguin, 1993), introduction.
9
. Maurizio Viroli,
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10
. Pringle, “Alberta Barren,” 30–37; Graham Thomson, “Outrageous System Regarded Them as Morons,”
Edmonton Journal, 2
Nov. 1999; Muir v. Alberta, 305, 36,
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3d.: 305–73.
11
. Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein,
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(New York: W.W. Norton, 1999).
12
. Bernard Yack, “The Myth of the Civic Nation,” in
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ed. Robert Beiner (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), 103–19. Philip Resnick, “Civic and Ethnic Nationalism: Lessons from the Canadian Case,” in
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eds. R. Beiner and W. Norman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000).
13
. Edmund Burke [1790],
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14
. Gwyn,
Nationalism without Walls,
255-56.
15
. Rogers Brubaker,
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16
. Will Kymlicka, “Misunderstanding Nationalism,” in
Theorizing Nationalism,
ed. Beiner, 131–41.
17
. Arthur Schlesinger,
The Disuniting of America
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18
. “Schools Fear for Immigrant Students,”
Globe and Mail,
3 Mar. 1998.
19
. Bissoondath,
Selling Illusions.
20
. John Ralston Saul,
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21
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(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). I was a member of this commission, and I supported the Kosovar claim to conditional independence under international supervision.
22
. I used this term in
The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
(Toronto: Penguin, 1998).
23
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See also
land rights