Here is another Table, which I expanded upon in my book The Great Divide (on pages 26-30) , that sharply illustrates the regime-change in Canada since the middle of the last century. A Table very similar to this could be drawn up for any Western nation. Read it. Think about it. Ask yourself where this trend is heading … because it is not going to stop anytime soon!
What we see in Part A is that many things once considered matters of fundamental freedom having to do with such as buying personal health care, private property rights, economic rights, freedom of thought, speech, and language rights, have fallen under state control; and in Part B, that the main focus of citizen freedom has become reduced to and is now centered upon the body and sexual matters,
It has been a Faustian deal wrought by Statist regimes all over the once-free world: More control and minute regulation of human life in all reaches of government, financed by the heaviest non-wartime taxation and public debt (deferred taxation) in history, in exchange for allowing citizens more bodily and sexual freedoms (abortion rights, homosexual rights, common-law marriage rights, easy-divorce rights, pornography rights, drug rights, transgender rights, etc., etc,)
A) The Advance of Socialism
Item 1950 Today
Private Medical Care Legal. Free-market Illegal. State monopoly
On all gov’t-insured services in Canada
Private Medical Legal. Open to all Illegal to buy or sell private options for
Care gov’t-insured medical services
National Language Legal to use any language Illegal. Forced Bilingualism
Freedom coast to coast in Canada
Private Property Legally-Protected. Lightly Heavily Regulated by many
regulated. Celebrated as an agencies. No constitutional
historical common-law right protection in Canada’s Charter
regulated. Celebrated as Many takings-by-regulation that
historical common-law right diminish property value without
market compensation
.
Rights to the Legal. All resources above Illegal. Federal and
“Gifts of Nature” or below the surface of one’s Provincial/State
on Private land privately owned land governments have legislatively-
–“From Heaven to Hell” — seized private resources
protected in law since without compensation to owners.
ancient times
Free Speech Legal; open to all Illegal. PC “hate” speech laws,
except for libel, slander, etc. Human Rights Tribunals & thought
All classic books allowed control. Many classic books banned
Free speech for third parties in schools .Third-party speech banned
allowed during elections at elections.
Public discussion of all topics Public discussion of many topics
encouraged actively discouraged/banned as “hate”
speech.
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Part B – The Advance of Libertarianism
Pornography Illegal Legal. Available everywhere
easy access even for children
Abortion Illegal. Only rare Legal. Available on demand and
cases allowed tax-funded (Canada)
Homosexuality Illegal Legal. Celebrated
Gay Marriage Illegal Legal. Sanctioned by government
(in Canada and many other states)
Divorce Illegal/Difficult Legal/Easy
based on fault, abandonment Based on “no fault”
insanity, spousal violence only Either spouse may trigger divorce
consent of both spouses req’d no consent of observant spouse req’d
Addictive Drugs Illegal Legal for private use.
State-supplied for addicts.
Canada and many other nations
now legalizing and tax-harvesting drugs
Transgendering Illegal Legal, by choice &
Allowed for genetic mistakes only State-funded (Canada).
Prostitution Illegal Legal in brothels & redefined as “sex work”
