Greater Good Government meets the Criminal Code of Canada

The Sixties Babyboom Generation of Love, Peace and Dope introduced abortion, the method of birth control after the fact, to make free love, or more open sex, freer. Like the music, media and medications around and abound, Babyboomers also never though much of abuses within the restrictive traditional family, where father knew best, or eventually when the work around the clock mother left the unworkable marriage, which gave into divorce and opened up relationships with other men without marriage, common law or even other women homosexually, men too separating to create partnerships outside the old way. All legalized with Canada's Criminal Law Amendment Act in 1968-69 by Liberal Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson and his Minister of Justice Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Bill C-150 was the omnibus bill, following those of similar initiative in European nations at the time. Introducing major changes in decriminalization of previous illegal activities like homosexuality, abortion or contraception, regulate lotteries, gun possession, drinking and driving offences, harassing phone calls, misleading advertising and cruelty to animals to the Criminal Code of Canada, as "there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation" since "what is done in private between adults does not concern the Criminal Code of Canada". The Dominion free itself in one sense, however enslaved itself in yet another, but the colony's blunder would not reveal itself until later.

Revisiting and reflecting upon this point in Canadian political scientific history, I am yet again reminded of what my old poli sci prof, Dr. David T. Koyzis, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Professor of Political Science at Redeemer University College, once said that, you can only know what kind of a conservative one is by asking them the question "what are you trying to conserve?", similarly, I extended this logic, saying you can only know what kind of a liberal one is by asking them the question, "what are you trying to liberate?", either side knows who they really are. Questions, issues and policies from the Big C Party Member Conservatives and Big L Party Member Liberals may not be the same one supported the small c platform voter conservatives and the small l platform voter liberals, in some cases, a Conservative may vote with a liberal and a Liberal may vote with a conservative, so the difference has truly become miniscule to the point of possibly not mattering anymore. Odd that for many in both movements, the letters L, F and M either stand for life, family and marriage between opposites or liberty, freedom and market between competitors, but neither together, perhaps the old politics of polarization has indeed defeated the new politics of realignment, where a Green or Reform, heck even a New Democrat or Bloc Quebecois, can not make a difference because of their lack of power, from the grassroots to the backroom, or as it now is vice versa!

The 2010s Babybust Generation of L, F and M is deciding which one they are, seeing both set of values as incompatible with each other, just as the generation before did, like the generation before them, but Generations X, Y and Z will have to understand there really is no political left or right here, no polarized debate between the blues and the reds, instead taxpayers, citizens or just regular everyday people will have to decide what is best for them. Can they find the extreme middle ground, away from the same old ideological status quo, pragmatic in debate and deliberation and principled in action and leadership, or is this a dream of the past? Can we expect government to protect its citizens from what endangers their mental, emotional or physical well being, in using reasonable and probable cause to provide both peace and order and what really constitutes the greater good government Ottawa supposedly provides us for the price, monetarily or not, we pay daily for it? When natural population increase by birth was replaced by artificial population increase by immigration, some people saw a cultural rebirth of a New Canada, yet others saw a cultural war within their Old Canada, ironically those of the bicultural Old Canada refused to admit an Older Canada of the third, or shall I say first culture that outdated both, ironically too it was the support base of that bicultural Old Canada people that created the situation we have today. Will Canadians, all of them including Gen Xers, Yers and Zers, finally decide to reject the bicultural Old Canada clique, so we can merge the monocultural Older Canada with this multicultural New Canada and finally move forward past the political divisiveness, dissention and discord, instead towards cultural unity, harmony and completeness!