I'm just a very hateful person, lately

Jul 19, 2010 16:48

When, in the late 1960s, Canada decriminalized gay sex between consenting adults, legalized contraception and abortion (in, you know, some cases, as determined by a committee, but still), then-Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau justified this in part by saying that the state had no place in the bedrooms of the nation. Cool quote, right? And it gets used all the time, in all sorts of debates. HOWEVER.

Trudeau went on to be Prime Minister and was both awesome and a total jackass. Often at the same time. Canada's current (Conservative, fyi) PM is... less with the awesome. Most recently, he's decided that we don't really need a proper, detailed census anymore. This is abysmally stupid on all sorts of levels (check the "related" links in that article too, because omg). The government can't justify its decision on economic grounds, nor on actual, well-substantiated privacy concerns (because Stats-Can is altogether wonderful), and are leaning entirely on the assertion that making 20% of households fill out a (not actually that) long questionnaire once every 5 years is just too damn intrusive. A conservative MP has attempted to justify this decision by quoting Trudeau, and opining that the census is allowing the government to unduly shove its nose in people's bedrooms.

*headdesk*

You have to understand that our current PM would wish nothing more than to roll back gay rights and to reduce women's control over their own bodies. And a whole bunch of his fellow conservative MPs, surprise surprise, agree with him. So to have one of them throw that quote out is just infuriating. Nevermind that criminalizing "homosexual behaviour" and limiting reproductive rights are a hell of a lot more intrusive than asking questions that help determine the reality of Canada's population.

...

That wasn't really coherent, but I don't care! I feel better now XD

*wanders off to write porn*

blame canada, wtf

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