Image via WikipediaFirst off, Canadians have learned we don't need an elected Parliament to produce a trendy, edgy, in-your-face update to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. For that we have unelected, trendy, edgy, in-your-face courts: ho ho! hey hey hey! update, away! In a move that explicitly over-ruled the express will of Parliament, the leftist-appointed courts of our fair land pencilled-in, nay, etched in stone, rights based on sexual orientation. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Call it Charter 2.0. It was like Moses going up the mountain to get a second copy of the ten commandments and coming back down with eleven! Kind of abrogating to himself a role that previously resided Higher Up, but, hey, it's a great gig if you can get away with it!
Now the President of the Liberal Party of Canada, in an act whose timing can only smack of a desperate move to regain some kind of national relevance for the Liberal Party, wants to add-in timely health care and a decent education.
I'm going to wait and let George Jonas (and, one would hope, Rex Murphy) tell us why this is an Incredibly Bad Idea. But, I will offer one reason. If I have the presumptive right to timely health care and a decent education, then, even if I'm the worst layabout in Canada, someone, i.e., "you" has the positive obligation to provide it to me. This makes you, in effect, a slave of me and my rights.
And that is why this, ultimately, would turn into an enslavement and not a freedom.
And that's the way the Ball bounces.
PS. Betcha George Jonas goes nuts on this.
