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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Canadian policy"”.
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The Euthanasia Debate: International Experience and Canadian Policy Proposals
… euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide into Canadian society. The thesis argues that euthanasia is too simplistic an approach to address the complexities of end of life issues. The policy proposal under active discussion is profoundly mistaken. The language of euthanasia is examined in …
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The formulation of Canadian policy during the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty
… be found in an analysis of the formulation of Canadian policy and the considerations upon which it was based: domestic politics, economics, defence, and internationalist ideals.
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The marriage dialogue
… The dialogue between courts, legislatures and Canadians is robust and having a significant impact on public policy in Canada. However, many of those in the legislature are either unaware or uninterested in this changing fact of Canadian policy making. This is particularly troubling given the …
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Authoritarianism on Policy Preferences in Canada
… an all-powerful or insignificant predictor of policy preferences; and as a predisposition that is activated by threat. Our understanding of it is further hampered by a lack of research outside of the United States. I address these problems by constructing a model where authoritarian values, …
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Definitions, interpretations and the scarce resource : Canadian refugee policy 1947-1993
… to challenge, frustrate and anger Western policymakers. To qualify as a Convention refugee, a person must fear persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality or membership of a social group. The Convention refugee must also be outside of his/her country of origin and unable to …
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Discourses of Disability and Sexuality: Barriers to Sexual Citizenship
… normalized. I contrast this experience with Canadian policy and legislation, that continues to deny individuals with disabilities their status as sexual citizens. By examining the Immigration Act of 1910 and the Sterilization Act of 1928, I argue that colonial biopower segregated and aimed to …
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REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AND FAMILY REUNIFICATION IN CANADA
… the plight of Sub-Saharan Africans who are now Canadians and are trying to settle in a new country in order to reunite with their family members. However, rather than assisting with process of resettlement, current Canadian policy has the opposite effect. It appears to create a route by which …
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Internationalization of Higher Education within Canada’s Migration Management Framework: Supply Side of International Student Migration
… of the late 1970s in education funding, Canadian higher education institutions (HEIs) have become commercialized and mobilized, pursuing student recruitment as a means to compensate for reduced governmental support. With strengthening revenue-seeking motivations behind …
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Policy issue networks: Social network analysis case studies
… (SNA) can be a powerful, proactive tool for policy makers to understand the online policy networks in which they operate. It does so by undertaking SNA at two points in time to quantify the actor nodes of three Canadian public policy networks, comparing the network evolution over time, and …