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Ottawa columnist George Bain knew how to cut to the chase. This ability was on full display on May 22, 1968 as that year’s federal election raged. Bain asked Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau directly, “What is a just society?” The PM, of course, had made the phrase and concept a centre-piece of his approach to politics.
“It means certain things in a legal sense – freeing an individual so he will be rid of his shackles and permitted to fulfil himself in the way which he judges best, without being bound up by standards of morality which have nothing to do with law and order but which have to do with prejudice and religious superstition,” Trudeau replied. “Another aspect of it is economic, and, rather than develop that in terms of social legislation and welfare benefits, which I do not reject or condemn.
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