The pace of this creeping totalitarianism is picking up. Every governmental decision now erodes individual rights instead of strengthening them. Our left leaning courts are part of this overall process, with the odd hiccup when some judge somewhere dimly remembers that the state is not supposed to remove rights from individuals such as raising their own child.

The will of mediocre politicians and bureaucrats is being substituted for our own, but it would not matter if the government were of the best and brightest. It would still be wrong for them to substitute their judgment for our own.

Given their record of mismanagement on any file you care to mention, (a health care system that rations access through waiting lists, cod fished into oblivion, Natives degraded by handouts without accountability, a gun registry that threw billions into the ditch instead of addressing criminals and their illegal gun supply, corporate welfare which works just as badly as social welfare etc.) the hubris of those who govern, that seems to infect even nominally conservative governments is astounding.

With a record as bad as this, any decent person would be working to decrease the size of government and its intrusions into citizens’ lives. Dr. Keith Martin is a good example of someone who has not become a pod person, who filed a motion to defend free speech and intends not to run again in the next election because he says it is impossible to get anything constructive done in our arthritic system.