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me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.

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The idea that individuals should have rights is now deeply embedded in Western liberal

democratic culture, but the idea that groups such as, say, immigrants, Muslims, Jews or

Sikhs, Native Americans or French-speaking Canadians, the idea

that they should have special rights seems incompatible with the kind of equality that liberals

advocate.

Nonetheless, Canadian philosopher Will Kimneker

believes that liberalism and group rights are compatible.

In fact, not just compatible, but in certain cases,

he says, liberalism actually requires granting distinctive rights to groups.

Wilkimlika, welcome to Flosby Bites.

Thank you.

Glad to be here.

The topic we want to talk about today is minority rights.

And I guess the obvious question is to ask are,

what is a minority and what kind of rights are we talking about?

So in my work, I've generally focused on three different types of groups.

First of all, indigenous peoples.

I'm from Canada, so it's a very important issue for us.

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