Book Review: Free to Believe: Rethinking Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Canada, by Mary Anne Waldron

Abstract

This review of Mary Anne Waldron's 2013 text argues that there is much to commend in her analysis of the Canadian jurisprudence of religious and conscientious freedom. Waldron offers a potent description of why constitutions protect conscientious freedom and has contrasts this compellingly with the purposes of equality rights. Perhaps Waldron’s most far-reaching contribution is her relational analysis of human rights, in which each right depends upon and must be interpreted in light of the others. The review suggests that there is still more work to be done in developing the distinctions between conscientious and expressive freedoms.

Keywords: Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Conscience, Canada, Constitutional Law