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The Role of the Public Institution in Promoting Equality and Tolerance:
End Notes


1. Many thanks to Arlene Zuckernick of the Jewish Federation for her tremendous assistance in researching this paper.

2. A recent strategy used by hate groups is to defend their activities by presenting themselves as defenders of free expression. Attempts to curb their activities are portrayed as censorship and therefore anti-democratic. Frances Henry, C. Tator, W. Mattis and T. Rees, The Colour of Democracy, (Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1995) p. 90.

3. Ross v. New Brunswick School District No. 15 el al., [ 1996] 1 S.C.R. 825, 133 D.L.R. 4th 3.

4. Cited in Ross, 133 D.L.R. 4th at 34.

5. Primo Levi, If this is a Man, (London: Penguin Press, 1979) p. 26.

6. Levi, p. 33

7. Levy, p. 15.

8. Henry p. 89 (see note 1).

9. R v. Keegstra, (1990), 61 C.C.C. (3d) 1.

10. See, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, (New York: Bantam Books, 1995) p. 159.

11. Catherine MacKinnon, Only Words, (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1993) p. 99. (The argument was put forward by the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund in the Keegstra case.)

12. MacKinnon, p. 99-100.

13. R. v. Edwards Books and Art Ltd. (1986) 35 D.L.R. (4th) I at 49.

14. MacKinnon, at 81-82.

15. MacKinnon at 84.

16. 133 D.L.R. (4th) at 20,

17. Canada (Canadian Human Rights Commission) v. Taylor (1990), 75 D.L.R. (4th) 577.

18. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1995) p. 158.

19. Goleman, p. 158, 159.

20. F. Henry, C. Tator, W. Mattis and T. Rees, The Colour of Democracy, Harcourt Brace, Toronto 1995 p. 318.

21. R v. Butler, [ 1992] 2 W.W.R. 577, 605.

22. Henry at 217.

23. R. v. Oakes (1986) 26 D.L.R. (4th) 200, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103.

24. 26 D.L.R. (4th) at 225.

25. Ross v. New Brunswick School District No. 15, [1996] 1 S.C.R. 825; 133 D.L.R. 4th 3,31

26. RJR-MacDonald v. Canada (Attorney General) (1995), 127 D.L.R. (4th) 1.

27. 61 C.C.C. (3d) at 50-5 1.

28. 133 D.L.R. (4th) at 36.

29. R. v. Butler, [ 1992] 2 W.W.R. 577, 609.

30. MacKinnon at 74.

31. MacKinnon at 75.

32. MacKinnon at 75-77.

33. MacKinnon at 103.

34. Goleman p. 158.

35. See, Gordon Allport, The Nature ofPrejudice, (Reading: Adley-Westley, 1954) Ch. 13.

36. David Holbrook, The Masks of Hate, (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1972) p. 42.

37. Holbrook, citing, M. Balint, Primary Love and Psychoanalytical Technique, Hogarth, 1952.


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