God bless our beloved Trudeau. Whatever his personal failings, he truly loved his people and his God, and did everything in his power to serve them faithfully.

by David Piney.

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As Minister of Justice under Pearson, Trudeau's experience with the Justice system and its enforcement community significantly contributed to his realization of authority's propensity to pursue its own convenience, even at the expense of the public.

His valiant efforts to enshrine a code of principles into Canada's administrative structure were idealistically based on the supremacy of God and the human need for freedom. A basic formula in fact to evolve a decent, principled people with an intrinsic respect for one another. 

Trudeau's views of the state and citizen participation are shaped by his realization of the propensity for excesses from the predator remnants of society, and thus his constant fear that its henchman, authoritarianism, is lurking just around the corner.

He was constantly aware that, "there nowhere exists a power which does not seek to increase itself, it's a universal law. The state is an indispensable instrument, but it is also a threatening force, which must be held at bay, lest it oppress the individual. Participation by everyone in the control and guidance of the state is therefore a moral imperative as well as a practical necessity; politics -as the act of preserving and expanding freedom- becomes the most important of human activities. " 

Trudeau cites approvingly Plato's dictum that, "the price people pay for not concerning themselves with politics is to be governed by people worse than themselves" and he adds; "A state in which people take no interest in political matters is doomed to slavery.

"Moreover, a truly enlightened self-interest must combine with morality, to require that each person participate in the governance of the state with an eye to more than their own welfare. A society of egoists quickly becomes a society of slaves. For each man taken individually, is quite incapable of shaking an established government. Such governments are not in the least weakened when a dissatisfied citizen no longer agrees to obey the authorities, for they will simply put him in jail"( or find other ways to force them into compliance).

"To remain free, citizens must seek their well being in a social order which is just to the largest number, for only large numbers have the power to make and destroy governments."

"Thus men can live free and at peace only if their society is just."

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God bless the soul of one of Canada's greatest leaders, the author of its fledgling Just Society, Pierre Elliot Trudeau.