Table of contents : Cover Title page Copyright Contents Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Constitutional Rhetoric and Social Justice: Reflections on the Justiciability Debate 3. Le debat sur les droits sociaux au Canada: respecte-t-il la juridicite de ces droits? 4. Social Charter Issues 5. Constitutional Dialogue 6. What's Wrong with Social Rights? 7. Creation Stories: Social Rights and Canada's Social Contract 8. The Social Charter: Poor Politics for the Poor 9. The Constitutional Politics of Poverty 10. Social Minima and Social Rights: Justifyng Social Minima Socially Appendix I: Draft Social Charter Appendix II: Ontario's Proposal for a Social Charter for Canada Appendix III: Report of the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada (Beaudoin-Dobbie) Appendix IV: Consensus Report on the Constitution--Charlottetown Final Text Appendix V: Charlottetown Accord Draft Leagal Text