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Examples Of Social Justice Issues In Canadian Society

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Justice Issues In Canadian Society
By: Council of Canadian Bishops

In Canadian society, there are many great things that everyday people do to make the place they live in much more. Charity is a big contribution to our society; almost everyday, people donate money and clothes they grow out of to help the less fortunate out. General kindness is a wonderful thing to see from one person to another; from holding the door open for an elderly person, to giving money to the homeless, kindness can be seen everywhere. The knowledge and good will to do the right thing is also another wonderful thing in our society.

The social justice principles that are being discussed in this document are: distributive justice, social justice, legal justice, and …show more content…

The largest of all these social problems is discrimination; the definition of discrimination is “treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing is perceived to belong to rather than on individual merit” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination). According to this definition, many people daily are being judged because of their race, gender and social status. Along with discrimination, disrespect of elders and common people is just as bad as the latter. By finding solutions to these two society issues, Canada would be a better place to …show more content…

Discrimination is an obvious example; by discriminating people because of race, gender, poverty status and age, it goes against all the social justice principles. By discriminating against a certain group of people, the government or everyday people strip them of their given rights, which is not at all acceptable. An example of racial discrimination in legal justice is refusing to hire a black man just because of his skin color, even though he is more qualified than the next person to be hired. This, of course, is illegal now but still occurs in less extremes. Another example of sexual discrimination is refusing to allow a female in the Senate; this happened in the 1800's, but is still a great example of sexual discrimination. Social status is another form of discrimination; every time someone passes a less fortunate person begging for money, the automatic response is that they put themselves into that position because of drug or alcohol addictions. This is also another form of discrimination against these less fortunate people. Discrimination against age leads to disrespect of elders and teenagers; disrespect is another society issue that is still present today. The virtue of distributive justice gives the example of welfare programs for the unemployed and elderly; the average people who have never heard of welfare and do not understand the concept are the ones discriminating against those who rely on that extra money to

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