i've stated this before: it was an error for the elder trudeau, or for jean chretien as it may have fallen to him, to concede these points to the lougheed conservatives. if they couldn't get the signature without conceding religious rights, they should have given up. it should have been a deal-breaker. the liberals should have held to their convictions and fought harder to keep religion out of it - because they were right, and their arguments against religion in the constitution have panned out.

if we could open this back up again, i'd be on the side that the liberals were historically on, which is to get religion out of the constitution altogether.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.