Volume 2:1 SPRING 2003 PRINTEMPS 4 Interview with the Hon. Sheila Copps 56 The Art of the Possible: Minister of Canadian Heritage Literature, Citizenship and Canadian Multiculturalism in a Global Context 8 Entretien avec l’Hon. Denis Coderre By Carrie Dawson and Marjorie Stone Ministre, Citoyenneté et immigration Canada 59 The Construction and Constitutionalization 10 Civic Participation: of Canada’s Citizenship Regime: On Active Citizenship, Social Capital Reconciliation of Diversity and Equality and Public Policy By Joseph Garcea By Daniel Schugurensky 64 Values: The Hidden Curriculum in Education 13 Expressing Citizenship Through Electoral By David Seljak Participation: Values and Responsibilities By Erin Tolley 67 “I don’t buy that …” The Values We Live By Today 17 A Tradition of Social Capital By Tom Faulkner in Minority Communities By Liviana Tossutti 69 From the Backdrop to the Foreground: Understanding Religion in Canadian Society 20 Social Inclusion and Democratic Citizenship By Paul Bramadat By Anver Saloojee 72 Citizenship of Canada Act: 22 My Night Or Yours? Strengthening the Value of our Citizenship The Literary Life of a Nation By Rosaline Frith Norman Ravvin 75 Meech : une occasion manquée de faire échec 24 Study of Religions for Citizenship: Why Not? à la fragmentation de la citoyenneté canadienne By Romulo F. Magsino Par Marie-Hélène Giroux 28 Informed Citizenship: 77 Transcending Diversity: Canada in a Comparative Context Envisioning Shared Citizenship By Henry Milner By Joanna Anneke Rummens 31 Diversity Without Divisiveness: 79 The Public Policy Role of Citizenship A Role for Social Capital? in a Globalized World By Jean-Pierre Voyer By Howard Duncan 33 La citoyenneté, l’inclusion et la diversité dans 81 Social Confusion: l’administration publique fédérale du Canada The Decline of ‘Cohesionism’ in Canada Par Georges Tsaï and its Lessons for the Study of Citizenship By Jack Jedwab 36 Citizenship Profiles of Young Canadians By Michel Pagé and Marie-Hélène Chastenay 39 The Values Debate, Citizenship Policy and Education in Canada: 48 Citizenship: Values and Responsibilities What world do we want? Schedule of sessions at the 2003 Congress of the Humanities By Lori A. Wilkinson and Yvonne Hébert and Social Sciences in Halifax 43 Regionalism, Citizenship, Identity 86 Full List of References & Bibliographies By Andrew Nurse 91 INSERT / ENCART 45 Citizenship and Attachment Across Borders? 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The following collection of essays suggests After all, none of our earlier challenges of diversity have been solved: that the challenge will be with us for a long time to come. None of the charges of racism against blacks in the police forces and judicial sys- essays suggest these forms of diversity will fade in their sociological tem are again in the news; the appalling conditions on many incidence or political salience. Nor do they suggest that the challenge Aboriginal reserves remain a national disgrace; recent immigrants of managing diversity will somehow take care of itself if just left to the have had a more difficult time finding an economic footing; not to logic of the free market or to the solicitude of individual Canadians. mention the unsettled constitutional wrangling with Quebec. Can we Managing diversity in Canada has always required conscious state hope that a system under such strain can cope with the demands of policies, and will continue to do so. increasingly assertive religious groups, particularly when one of these Many of the issues discussed in the essays, therefore, will be groups has become associated with fundamentalism and terrorism? familiar to readers: ie., how to reconcile the recognition of diversity Pour ceux qui sont de nature pessimiste, il y a matière à s’in- with the building of common feelings of membership and solidarity; quiéter. Quelques-uns des essais suivants expriment le désespoir et le how to understand the links between economic disadvantage and cul- découragement. Sur une autre note, ils expriment aussi une confi- tural exclusion, since many minority groups suffer