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Originally Posted by SebC
Not exactly. The Liberals are more socialist (no, that's not a dirty word), but they're also more, well, liberal! It's conservatives (small c, but those people are part of the big C Conservative base whether the big C Conservatives like it or not) who want to legislate morality (anti-piracy, anti-gay, anti-marijuana, anti-prostitution, anti-abortion etc.). That's why it's somewhat ironic the party that represents the people who want to tell society what to do also represents those who don't want the government to know what they're doing. Have to wonder if it's not a case as "do as I do, not as I say".
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Yeah, I guess that's where my thinking was messed up. The stereotype of the Conservatives is that they want to legislate behaviour, where the Liberals are expected to follow Trudeau's old adage of, "there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation". So, it seemed strange that the Liberals are in favour of forcing people to tell Stats Can the details of their lives.
I guess it's a case of "do whatever you want in your own bedroom, just let us know how many bedrooms you're doing it in".