It doesn’t really matter that Pierre Trudeau’s most famous quotation was:
(a) cadged from a Globe & Mail piece
(b) not actually a statement supporting the right of personal privacy of all Canadian citizens
(c) was pragmatic (really only motivated by the reality that policing Canadian bedrooms would have been physically impossible back in the day
(d) had nothing to do with human rights (else he would have incorporated LGBT rights into the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms)
(e) not an example that he was a “statesman” (considering there is ample evidence he himself considered homosexuality to be a sin) by overcoming his own personal prejudices in order to champion LGBT rights, but probably more an example of a self aware Jesuit trained sinner finding it in his heart to refrain from prosecuting other sinners in order to exploit the issue to further his own ends,
...because whatever his motivation or personal or political agenda, the words he spoke were taken to heart by Canadians, who took them at face value.
Canadians were happy to hear the state had no business in the bedrooms of consenting adults. No matter why Pierre Trudeau said it, we know this true.
Modern technology has made it breathtakingly easy for the state to spy on every aspect of our lives, including surveilling us through our own devices, whether smart phones or smart tvs tablets and computers, saving copies of our email and social media utterances, tracking our movements through metadata and recording us (and our children) wherever we are, including the privacy of our own homes-- including our bedrooms.... and Bill C-51 made such evisceration of the civil rights guaranteed us under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms legal.
But we KNOW it is wrong, because we know
“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”
