‘A woman’s right to choose trumps the right to a federal grant?????’

Our Prime Minister says; “a woman’s right to choose trumps the right to a federal grant.” Is some kind of a game where one ‘right’ is played against the other?  For our politicians it certainly seems so.  But for many young people who may not be getting summer jobs because of this ‘policy,’ it  isn’t a game.  It isn’t a game for unborn children, mothers, women and anyone else involved in this complex social issue.  Yet that’s the bottom line for our Prime Minister.

Reducing difficult social issues to simple games where one interest ‘trumps’ another is a great strategy for silencing opposing views.  Childish minds will accept a complex debate being settled by such simple-minded rules.  They will even prefer it because the alternatives – reasoned debate and difficult moral discussions – are just too hard.

What is the real  connection between the right to a federal grant and a woman’s right?  The former doesn’t necessarily preclude the latter in any way unless you’re playing a simple-minded game.

What is really being played here is the Canadian public in a cynical attempt to disguise the bigger contest – freedom of choice against freedom of conscience.  And like any childish player, our Prime Minister wants to guarantee one by curtailing the other.

Sadly, when our leaders play these kind of games and the public accepts it, we all lose.