It has nothing to do with life or family issues, but I have a column today in the National Post about Jean Chretien. In my book (now just $14.95) I mention how terrible he was on abortion and same-sex marriage, but the focus on the column and book are the numerous scandals that embroiled his government.
Chretien treated social issues like he treated scandals of mismanagement, craven power-grabbing, and outright corruption: with a shrug followed by callous political exploitation. He flipped off the one third of Canadians who are pro-life by declaring social peace on the issue of abortion in order to paint Stockwell Day as an extremist. He effectively asked the Supreme Court of Canada to okay his proposal to legalize same-sex marriage and then said he was only following what the courts told him had to be done. The cynicism of this master politician was itself a scandal. But the greatest scandal for any politician is not acting in the face of the killing of 100,000 unborn children. The social peace — which was more of a force silence on abortion — was bought with the blood of three million innocents since 1969. Chretien treated abortion lightly saying he was the 18th of 19th children in his family and joking that he would have been a victim himself had abortion been legal in the 1930s. It is terrible that Canada’s prime minister treated abortion as a subject for humour rather than a problem to be corrected.
