Ethical Issues: Perspectives for Canadians is a collection of readings designed to introduce students to a number of important topics, including our obligations toward the environment, the treatment of non-human animals, abortion, assisted reproduction, end of life decision-making, freedom of expression, war, multiculturalism, and more. Readings have been carefully selected to represent a broad array of perspectives and arguments. Relevant legislation, court cases, and other non-philosophical works complement the writings of professional philosophers to provide students with multiple approaches to the issues. Brief introductions and discussion questions are provided for each reading, and a general introduction to the basic ethical theories is included.

Introduction
A Note on the Fourth Edition

• Introduction
• 1. Arne Naess and colleagues, Platform Principles of the Deep Ecology Movement and Arne Naess, Identification as a Source of Deep Ecological Attitudes
• 2. Karen J. Warren, The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism
• 3. Jan Narveson, Resources and Environmental Policy
• 4. Peter Singer, Rich and Poor
• 5. John Arthur, Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code
• 6. Monica Aufrecht, Climate Change and Structural Emissions: Moral Obligations at the Individual Level
• 7. Naomi Klein, from This Changes Everything and The Leap Manifesto

• Introduction
• 1. Peter Singer, Equality for Animals?
• 2. Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights
• 3. Peter Carruthers, Against the Moral Standing of Animals
• 4. Alastair Norcross, Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases
• 5. Chloë Taylor, Foucault and the Ethics of Eating
• 6. Will Kymlicka & Sue Donaldson, Animals Rights and Indigenous Rights

• Introduction
• 1. Mary Anne Warren, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
• 2. Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion
• 3. Don Marquis, An Argument That Abortion Is Wrong
• 4. Susan Sherwin, Abortion (from No Longer Patient)
• 5. Celia Wolf-Devine, Abortion and the “Feminine Voice”
• 6. Rosalind Hursthouse, Virtue Theory and Abortion

• Introduction
• 1. The Government of Canada, Assisted Human Reproduction Act
• 2. Elizabeth S. Anderson, Is Women’s Labor a Commodity?
• 3. Christine Overall, Reproductive ‘Surrogacy’ and Parental Licensing
• 4. Jaime Ahlberg & Harry Brighouse, An Argument against Cloning
• 5. Françoise Baylis, Human Cloning: Three Mistakes and an Alternative
• 6. Christopher Gyngell, Thomas Douglas, & Julian Savulescu, The Ethics of Germline Gene Editing

• Introduction
• 1. Dan W. Brock, Voluntary Active Euthanasia
• 2. Daniel Callahan, When Self-Determination Runs Amok
• 3. Margaret Somerville, from Death Talk
• 4. Supreme Court of Canada, Carter v. Canada
• 5. The Government of Canada, Criminal Code of Canada
• 6. L.W. Sumner, Deciding for Others (from Assisted Death)

• Introduction
• 1. John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty
• 2. Supreme Court of Canada, Chief Justice Dickson, R. v. Keegstra
• 3. L.W. Sumner, In Harm’s Way (from The Hateful and the Obscene)
• 4. Jeremy Waldron, Why Call Hate Speech Group Libel?
• 5. Neil Bissoondath, Diversity and Creativity (from Selling Illusions)
• 6. Judith Butler, Ruled Out: Vocabularies of the Censor
• 7. Letitia Meynell, On Political Correctness
• 8. Catharine A. MacKinnon, Francis Biddle’s Sister, from Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
• 9. Rebecca Sullivan & Alan McKee, Pornography Governance and Sexual Citizenship
• 10. Rae Langton & Caroline West, Scorekeeping in a Pornographic Language Game
• 11. Nicole Wyatt, Failing to Do Things with Words
• 12. Leslie Green, Pornographies

• Introduction
• 1. Gérard Bouchard & Charles Taylor, Building the Future: A Time for Reconciliation
• 2. Neil Bissoondath, The Limits of Diversity (from Selling Illusions)
• 3. Susan Moller Okin, Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
• 4. Martha Nussbaum, Veiled Threats? and Beyond the Veil: A Response
• 5. Will Kymlicka, Liberalism in Culturally Plural Societies (from Liberalism, Community, and Culture)
• 6. Mary Ellen Turpel, Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter
• 7. Pierre E. Trudeau, Justice in Our Time
• 8. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Partners in Confederation: Aboriginal Peoples, Self Government, and the Constitution
• 9. Glen S. Coulthard, Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the “Politics of Recognition” in Canada
• 10. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Honouring the Truth: Reconciling for the Future
• 11. Michael McDonald, Aboriginal Rights

• Introduction
• 1. The Geneva Conventions
• 2. Richard Norman, The Case for Pacifism
• 3. Brian Orend, Evaluating the Pacifist Alternative
• 4. Joseph Kunkel, Challenging the Domestic Analogy: A Critique of Killing in Self-Defense
• 5. Michael Green, War, Innocence, and Theories of Sovereignty
• 6. Troy Jollimore, Terrorism, War, and the Killing of the Innocent
• 7. Laura Westra, Terrorism, Self-Defense, and Whistleblowing
• 8. Jeff McMahan, Torture in Principle and in Practice
• 9. Law Reform Commission of Canada, The Aims of Criminal Law

Permissions Acknowledgements