Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: New Approaches to Freedom in Canada -- 1 Reconciling Struggles over the Recognition of Minorities: Towards a Dialogical Approach -- 2 Reasoning about Identity: Canada's Distinctive Culture Test -- 3 The Imperative of "Culture" in a Colonial and de facto Polity -- 4 Culture as a Basic Human Right -- 5 The Misuse of "Culture" by the Supreme Court of Canada -- 6 Gender, Difference, and Anti-Essentialism: Towards a Feminist Response to Cultural Claims in Law -- 7 Interpreting the Identity Claims of Young Children -- 8 Protecting Confessions of Faith and Securing Equality of Treatment for Religious Minorities in Education -- 9 The Irreducibly Religious Content of Freedom of Religion -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.