Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Canada's Rights Revolution -- The Politics of Rights: Parliamentary Supremacy and the Bill of Rights Movement -- The Human Rights State: Human Rights and the Law -- Strategies for Change: Human Rights Activism -- Canada's Rights Culture -- 3 The Forties and Fifties: The First Generation -- Criminalizing Communism -- The Padlock Act and the Canadian Civil Liberties Union -- The Line in the Sand: Communists and Social Democrats -- "A farce of citizenship": Japanese Canadians and the Espionage Commission -- Anti-Discrimination Legislation -- A National Rights Association -- 4 Social Movement Organizations: A Brief Introduction -- 5 The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association -- A New Era Begins: The Proliferation of Rights Associations -- The Birth of the BCCLA -- "It's simple common sense": Defending Free Speech in British Columbia -- The October Crisis -- Violence in the Streets: The Gastown Riot -- Taking the Government to Court: The Heroin Treatment Act -- The BCCLA: A Case Study in Negative Freedom -- 6 La Ligue des droits de l'homme -- "An anachronism failing to function properly": The Law Years, 1963-1970 -- "Just watch me": The October Crisis, 1970 -- The Ligue and the Crisis of 1970 -- Transition Years, 1970-75 -- New Orientations and Divisions, 1975-82 -- The LDH: A Case Study in Positive Freedom -- 7 The Canadian Civil Liberties Association -- "It makes the Quebec padlock law look like the Bill of Rights": First Steps, 1964-68 -- "The insane are devil possessed!" Entrenchment Years, 1968-77 -- Protecting People from the Police, 1977-82 -- The Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- The CCLA: A Case Study in National Social Movement Organizing -- 8 The Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association -- Nineteen Sixty-Eight: International Year for Human Rights.

"The very survival of the organization depends on your generosity": The NLHRA -- "The greatest single threat to equality of religion and freedom of worship": The Case of Denominational Education -- The NLHRA: A Case Study in State Funding -- 9 Conclusion -- The New Anti-Liberals? Comparing Generations -- Divided We Stand: A National Rights Association -- State Funding -- Rights Activism in the Age of Protest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.