More Father Knows Best
KAMLOOPS — Last week’s column on the perils of pot and how Father Knows Best, drew a number of responses but one in particular caught my eye. In this case, the reader felt City Hall was doing what the electorate wanted when he stated, “Jeez, maybe its (sic) because they were elected to do what there (sic) doing.”
If I understand that correctly, the reader is pointing out that City Council was elected based on the ideas and values they held and therefore he feels the by-law is simply a reflection or extension of those values. It is, according to the reader, simply the politician doing the job they were elected to do.
It’s an interesting point as it removes right or wrong from the equation and replaces it with political dogma as the primary test for the appropriateness or in his case, righteousness of a by-law. It does give one pause for thought about the role of City Hall and the purpose of legislation through by-laws.
So maybe a good place to restart this conversation is with a 1967 quote from Pierre Trudeau where he declared, “There is no place for the State in the bedrooms of the Nation”