The Charter of Rights and the Ad Hoc Lobby: The Limits of the Success

Authors

  • Sandra Burt University of Waterloo

Abstract

The political significance of women's lobbying efforts to affect the wording of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is assessed in this paper. The author proposes that the women's lobby worked within government defined terms of reference, and its success was limited to strengthening the federal government's commitment to legal equality rights for women. In the process, the Ad Hoc Committee which led the lobby modeled its tactics on those of traditional pressure groups, and not on the consensual tactics of many feminist groups.

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Published

1988-10-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (1988)

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Original Research

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