TRUDEAU STATUE TO ‘GRACE’ PARLIAMENT HILL

OTTAWA, April 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sheila Copps, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced this week that her department is about to place a statue of Pierre Elliott Trudeau on Parliament Hill. “It speaks to showing our heroes and respecting our prime ministers,” said Copps. “His time in politics was a time of great vision for the country and I think obviously, if you see the response of the people when he died, he’s a person who is remembered. This is a tangible way of remembering him.”  Pro-lifers well know the sinister backdrop to all of Trudeau’s achievements. As Minister of Justice In 1967, he personally and on his own initiative introduced the government’s proposal for legalizing abortion, bypassing all public hearings. With abortion buried amongst 108 other items in his Omnibus Bill (in order to weaken resistance to it) the bill passed in 1969 by which time he was prime minister. When the remaining abortion law was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1988, that too was a direct legacy of Trudeau’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, by means of which the Court imagined that security of the person included destroying the life of an unborn baby.  It is not unusual for governments to raise statues in honour of prime ministers from their own political party. The statue of Sir Robert Borden (prime minister from 1911 to 1920) was not raised until 1956 by the Diefenbaker Tories. In turn, the Mulroney Tories put up a statue of Diefenbaker in 1985. Former NDP leader Alexa McDonough is among those,  including Trudeau’s relatives, who have been invited to be on the committee that oversees the design of the statue.  For Globe coverage:  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030331/UTRUDM//National